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Screening & Debris Removal at Seawater Intakes

Engineering Excellence for Marine Environments

Coastal waters carry seaweed, plastic, jellyfish blooms and suspended sediment that can clog pumps, foul heat exchangers and damage SWRO membranes. A staged screening train — coarse, fine and polishing — removes debris progressively while keeping head loss and marine-life impact low.

99.5%
debris removal
1–100 mm
aperture range
Multi
stage train
Auto
self-cleaning

Screening Equipment

Staged from coarse to fine

Coarse Bar Screens & Rakes

50–100 mm bars with automatic trash rakes remove large debris and seaweed.

Travelling Band Screens

Continuous through- or dual-flow band screens with spray-wash and debris troughs.

Drum & Disc Screens

High-capacity rotary screens for large flows in compact footprints.

Fine Wedge-Wire Screens

1–3 mm slotted screens with airburst cleaning for fine, fish-friendly screening.

Fish-Return Band Screens

Modified band screens with low-pressure wash and return troughs to release impinged fish alive.

Jellyfish & HAB Management

High-capacity drum screens, DAF and warning systems for bloom and red-tide events.

Typical Screening Stages

Aperture and velocity envelope

StageApertureApproach VelocityRemoves
Coarse50 – 100 mm<1.0 m/sLogs, seaweed mats, large debris
Fine3 – 10 mm<0.5 m/sPlastics, small debris, large biota
Polishing1 – 3 mm<0.15 m/sLarvae, fine solids; fish-protective

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