Environmentally compatible water purification
The growth of the world’s population and advancing industrialization are causing a constant increase in the worldwide demand for drinking water. To safeguard the water supply, surface waters and groundwater need to be protected from the discharge of sewage. Simultaneously, treatment and management capacities for drinking water need to be expanded. LKCA offers a variety of environment-friendly procedures for treating groundwater and surface waters which harness methods such as membrane technology to disinfect the water without the input of chemicals.

If freshwater is not present in sufficient quantities to produce drinking water, LKCA can desalinate brackish water and seawater by means of reverse osmosis (Glossary) (see Glossary). To increase cost effectiveness, the plants are equipped with a turbine for recovering energy. Designed on a modular basis, the sites are also distinguished by their compact size and short construction times. For instance, our seawater desalination plant in Algeria was completed in just four months. Other Linde installations for producing drinking water from saltwater are currently in operation in Saudi Arabia, Florida and Texas (U.S.A.), Bahrain, Ecuador, France, and on the Canary Islands.