Application of reverse osmosis to reduce pollutants present in industrial wastewater

Bódalo-Santoyo, A.; Gomez-Carrasco, J. L.; Gómez, E.; Máximo-Martín, F.; Hidalgo, A.M.

doi:10.1016/s0011-9164(03)00287-x

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“…As a consequence, this technology can be considered as the lowest cost technology for water desalination (Carter, 2015) in comparison to others existing technologies, such as thermal desalination (multistage flash desalination, MSF; multi-effect distillation, MED) (Moonkhum et al, 2010). RO is a prominent separation process in process industries (such as textile, paper, food, electrochemical, biochemical industries) and in wastewater treatment in addition to water desalination due to its power to separate impurities effectively and in a way appropriate to the environmental demands (Elhalwagi, 1992;Bódalo-Santoyo et al, 2003;Nguyen et al, 2009;Slater et al, 1983). As a result, a number of researchers in the past decades developed several mathematical models of RO desalination process in order to explain the separation technique and to carry out model based optimisation to enhance the efficiency of the production process Mujtaba, 2012, 2013a,b;Barello et al, 2015;Manenti et al, 2015).…”

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Steady state and dynamic modeling of spiral wound wastewater reverse osmosis process

Al‐Obaidi

Mujtaba

2016

Computers & Chemical Engineering

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Steady state and dynamic modeling of spiral wound wastewater reverse osmosis process

Al‐Obaidi

Mujtaba

2016

Computers & Chemical Engineering

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“…Selecting an appropriate process to meet specific needs at specific locations is essential though the biggest challenge remains in the capability to successfully operate these plants once installed due to peculiarities of sea and brackish waters in the region 1 . Membrane filtration in general and reverse osmosis (RO) in particular is applied in a wide range of fields, such as chemical, medical, textile, petrochemical, electrochemical, water treatment, biotechnology and environmental industries 2 .…”

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Reverse Osmosis Pretreatment: Removal of Iron in Groundwater Desalination Plant in Shupramant-Giza – A Case Study

Aly¹,

Kamel²,

Hamdy³

et al. 2012

Curr. World Environ

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INTRODUCTIONDue to recent developments in membrane technology, the trend in the desalination industry is to use reverse osmosis (RO) for desalting seawater. Brackish water (BW) desalination using membrane technology is also expanding as the salinity of groundwater increases. Selecting an appropriate process to meet specific needs at specific locations is essential though the biggest challenge remains in the capability to successfully operate these plants once installed due to peculiarities of sea and brackish waters in the region ABSTRACTReverse osmosis (RO) is being increasingly utilized throughout the world for desalination due to the latest improvements in RO membrane performance and its reduced cost compared to thermal desalination. In this paper, Different media and chemicals have been used for Iron removal to prevent membrane fouling of groundwater reverse osmosis plant located in Shupramant-Giza. The objective is to present field results of the reverse osmosis plant operation in order to evaluate the reliability of this technology. The operating pressure and pressure drop increased significantly without an increase in the production capacity. Frequent shutdowns of the plant were observed due to severe membrane fouling. The membrane was cleaned with different chemical solutions to dissolve the deposits from the membrane surface. To achieve high cleaning efficiency, the flow rate of desalinated water and total dissolved salts (TDS) were studied.

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“…The use of RO in the treatment of various effluents of chemical (Bodalo-Santoyo et al, 2003;, petrochemical, electrochemical (Koops et al, 2001), food, paper and tanning industries as well as in the treatment of municipal waste waters have been reported in the literature (Schutte, 2003). Also, the removal of individual contaminants by RO has been studied by very few researchers (Murthy and Gupta, 1999;Moresi et al, 2002;Arsuaga et al, 2006).…”

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Spiral Wound Reverse Osmosis Membranes for the Recovery of Phenol Compounds-Experimental and Parameter Estimation Studies

Srinivasan¹,

Sundaramoorthy²,

Murthy³

2010

American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences

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Problem statement:Reverse osmosis is increasingly used as a separation technique in chemical and environmental engineering for the removal of organics and organic pollutants present in waste water. The removal of an organic compound, namely phenol, using a polyamide membrane was investigated in this study. Waste water containing phenol present a serious environmental problem and increasing attention is being given for its removal using RO membranes. Objective of this study is to (i) generate experimental data related to the removal of phenol using a spiral wound polyamide membrane (ii) analyze the performance of the membrane using solution-diffusion model and validate the model with the experimental data. Approach: Experiments were conducted on a laboratory scale spiral wound polyamide RO module. The permeate concentrations and rejection coefficient values were measured for various feed inlet pressures and feed concentrations. The total feed flow rate, 3.33×10 −4 m 3 sec −1 (20 LPM) was not varied. The transport of solvent and solute through the membranes were analyzed using solution-diffusion model taking concentration polarization into account. Results: By varying inlet pressures from 4-14 kg f cm −2 ) and feed concentrations of phenol from 200-1100 ppm, the rejection coefficients of the membrane were measured and found to vary from 64-91%. The solvent and solute transport parameters were determined by a graphical procedure using the experimental data and its values were 5.9×10 −7 (m atm −1 ) and 6.54×10 −7 (m sec −1 ) respectively. Conclusion:The model and the estimated parameter values were validated with the experimental data. The model was able to predict the rejection within 10% error. In view of the fact that not much information is available on the usage of spiral wound polyamide RO membrane modules for the removal of phenolic compounds, it may be concluded that the experimental results reported in this study is very significant in the scale up and design of RO system for treatment of industrial effluents containing phenolic compounds.

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Application of reverse osmosis to reduce pollutants present in industrial wastewater

Cited by 156 publications

References 8 publications

Steady state and dynamic modeling of spiral wound wastewater reverse osmosis process

Steady state and dynamic modeling of spiral wound wastewater reverse osmosis process

Reverse Osmosis Pretreatment: Removal of Iron in Groundwater Desalination Plant in Shupramant-Giza – A Case Study

Spiral Wound Reverse Osmosis Membranes for the Recovery of Phenol Compounds-Experimental and Parameter Estimation Studies

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