Hi,
I was quite intrigued by this treatment technology when I saw it presented. The guy doing the presentation gave us some numbers:
- total area 80 000 m2
- depth 3 m
- residence time of sea water 120 days = 2000 m3/day pumped from the sea
- maintenance costs of 20 000 $ / month = 1$/m3/year
- The pool is vacuumed every day
- he stated they used very low amounts of chlorine
The low maintenance costs strongly suggest some simple kind of treatment like Richard stated:
But how do they control algae growth in that huge amount of water? Even if the water coming in the pool is totally filtered there will always be algae floating or lying on the bottom of the pool.
Mario
I was quite intrigued by this treatment technology when I saw it presented. The guy doing the presentation gave us some numbers:
- total area 80 000 m2
- depth 3 m
- residence time of sea water 120 days = 2000 m3/day pumped from the sea
- maintenance costs of 20 000 $ / month = 1$/m3/year
- The pool is vacuumed every day
- he stated they used very low amounts of chlorine
The low maintenance costs strongly suggest some simple kind of treatment like Richard stated:
will be treated similar to the ocean itself
But how do they control algae growth in that huge amount of water? Even if the water coming in the pool is totally filtered there will always be algae floating or lying on the bottom of the pool.
Mario