Forward osmosis treatment of drilling mud and fracturing wastewater from oil and gas operations

Hickenbottom, Kerri L.; Hancock, Nathan T.; Hutchings, Nathan R.; Appleton, Eric W.; Beaudry, Edward G.; Xu, Pei; Cath, Tzahi Y.

doi:10.1016/j.desal.2012.05.037

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“…ECP is caused by the slow diffusion of the draw solutes between the bulk solution and the membrane draw solution interface. ECP can be reduced by optimizing the operating conditions such as increasing the cross flow velocity [12] and the solution temperature [13]. On the other hand, ICP is related to the hindered diffusion of the draw solute within the support layer and thus it is an intrinsic property of the membrane and cannot be controlled by optimizing the operating conditions.…”

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confidence: 99%

A sacrificial-layer approach to fabricate polysulfone support for forward osmosis thin-film composite membranes with reduced internal concentration polarisation

Xiao

Nghiem

Yin

et al. 2015

Journal of Membrane Science

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He, T. (2015). A sacrificial-layer approach to fabricate polysulfone support for forward osmosis thin-film composite membranes with reduced internal concentration polarisation. Journal of Membrane Science, 481 106-114.A sacrificial-layer approach to fabricate polysulfone support for forward osmosis thin-film composite membranes with reduced internal concentration polarisation AbstractThis study demonstrates a sacrificial-layer approach by co-casting, which is the simultaneous casting of two layers, to prepare a polysulfone support (denoted as PSfco) layer with open bottom surface morphology for fabricating thin-film composite forward osmosis (FO) membranes. In the co-casting process, polyetherimide (PEI), used as the sacrificial layer, was co-cast beneath the PSf layer. After the PEI layer was peeled off, PSfco was yielded with an open-bottom structure. Results showed that under the same operating condition, the FO membrane prepared by co-casting (denoted as PSfco-TFC) demonstrated a 10% higher water flux using 0.5 M NaCl draw solution and 30% higher water flux using 4 M NaCl draw solution in the AL-FS mode in comparison to membranes prepared in a single layer casting technique (denoted as PSfs-TFC). The PSfco-TFC exhibits a lower average structural parameter (S, 167 μm) than that of the PSfs-TFC (241 μm), while the water and salt permeability coefficients of both membranes are similar. Results reported here demonstrate that the co-casting technique can be used to fabricate FO membranes with significantly improved performance compared to the conventional approach. Results showed that under the same operating condition, the FO membrane prepared by cocasting (denoted as PSf co -TFC) demonstrated a 10% higher water flux using 0.5 M NaCl draw solution and 30% higher water flux using 4 M NaCl draw solution in the AL-FS mode in comparison to membranes prepared in a single layer casting technique (denoted as PSf s -TFC).The PSf co -TFC exhibits a lower average structural parameter (S, 167 microns) than that of the PSf s -TFC (241 microns), while the water and salt permeability coefficients of both membranes are similar. Results reported here demonstrate that the co-casting technique can be used to fabricate FO membranes with significantly improved performance compared to the conventional approach.

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A sacrificial-layer approach to fabricate polysulfone support for forward osmosis thin-film composite membranes with reduced internal concentration polarisation

Xiao

Nghiem

Yin

et al. 2015

Journal of Membrane Science

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“…The wastewater recovery capacity of the plant is 242,000 gallons of water per day, reducing the need for additional fresh water. Similar studies and applications have been performed by different companies and research groups using different membrane materials, modules, DS, and process configurations [57][58][59]. In these studies, it was reported that the volume of wastewater was greatly reduced, the need for fresh water was reduced, and a welldesigned FO process could be a much more advantageous option than RO [60].…”

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confidence: 72%

“…An FO system in Figure 9a is combined with an RO system for the treatment of highly contaminated wastewaters [59,83]. Since hydraulic pressure is not present in FO, the accumulation of contaminants in the membrane is lower and the pretreatment need is eliminated.…”

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Forward Osmosis Membranes – A Review: Part II

Eyvaz¹,

Arslan²,

İmer³

et al. 2018

Osmotically Driven Membrane Processes - Approach, Development and Current Status

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Forward osmosis (FO) is a technical term describing the natural phenomenon of osmosis: the transport of water molecules across a semipermeable membrane by osmotic pressure from a feed solution (FS) to a draw solution (DS). The diluted DS is then reconcentrated to recycle the draw solutes as well as to produce purified water. As the driving force is only the osmotic pressure difference between two solutions, meaning that there is no need to apply an external energy, this results in low fouling propensity of membrane and minimization of irreversible cake forming, which are the main problems controverted by membrane applications, especially in biological treatment systems (e.g., FO membrane bioreactor (FO-MBR)). The purpose of the book chapter is to bring an overview on the FO membrane manufacturing, characterizing and application area at laboratory or full scales. This book chapter is published in two parts. In the second part, which appears here, characterization of mass transport in FO membranes, fouling mechanisms and foulants on FO membranes in naturally asymmetric structure and application areas of FO membranes in the literature are mentioned. Cutting-edge technologies on FO studies are comprehensively reviewed and following major and minor titles are stated truly on the new technologies.

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“…Such examples include microfiltration (MF) and ultrafiltration (UF) for membrane bioreactors in wastewater treatment [2] and for pre-treatments in seawater desalination [3] as well as nanofiltration (NF) and reverse osmosis (RO) in brackish water [4] and seawater desalination [5][6][7]. The forward osmosis (FO) process has also been attracting great attention for its potential applications in seawater desalination [8,9], wastewater reclamation [10,11], and industrial wastewater treatment such Desalination 352 (2014) 128-135 as shale gas produced wastewater [12][13][14]. Particularly, in terms of membrane fouling/cleaning, FO process is assumed to be more preferable to RO process [9,10,[15][16][17][18].…”

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confidence: 99%

A novel analysis of reverse draw and feed solute fluxes in forward osmosis membrane process

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Forward osmosis treatment of drilling mud and fracturing wastewater from oil and gas operations

Cited by 301 publications

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A sacrificial-layer approach to fabricate polysulfone support for forward osmosis thin-film composite membranes with reduced internal concentration polarisation

A sacrificial-layer approach to fabricate polysulfone support for forward osmosis thin-film composite membranes with reduced internal concentration polarisation

Forward Osmosis Membranes – A Review: Part II

A novel analysis of reverse draw and feed solute fluxes in forward osmosis membrane process

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