A Short Review of Applications of Reverse Osmosis and Other Membrane Separation Procedures

Reverse osmosis (RO) is a ground breaking membrane based technology to purify water by separating the dissolved solids from feed stream resulting in permeate and reject stream for a wide arena of applications in domestic , industrial and wide array of applications. Reverse osmosis or other membrane separation processes has an innovative vision which is extremely targeted towards environmental pollution control problems and environmental restrictions. Reverse osmosis has a vision which is anticipated from our present day environmental pollution control issues. Membrane separation processes will slowly enhance towards a ground breaking procedure. It is seen from literature review that RO technology is used to remove dissolved solids, colour, organic contaminants and nitrate from feed stream. Hence RO technology used in the treatment of water and hazardous waste, separation processes in the food, beverage and paper industry as well as recovery of organic and inorganic materials from chemical processes as an alternative method. This review paper presents the instinctive and innovative vision of RO technology as a visionary technique to treat wastewater in different industrial applications. The present short review outlines the applicability of RO system for different applications of environment pollution control.