Abstract A seawater reverse osmosis (RO) plant layout based on multistage RO with stages located at different elevations above sea level is described. The uses the weight of a column from pumped storage as head pressure for (gravity-driven RO) or to supplement high-pressure pumps used in (gravity-assisted RO). use gravitational force reduces specific energy compared using pumps. By locating dem...

in this report, experimental investigation of waste water treatment by reverse osmosis to enable its reuse in cooling tower is presented. a polyamide spiral wound ro membrane followed by three filters as ro pretreatment (two activated carbon and one cartridge filter) and samples of tehran refinery treated waste water have been used. the effect of operating conditions such as pressure difference...

Reverse 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 pres...

Membrane processes have been successfully employed for treatment of a large number of industrial effluents. Reverse osmosis (RO) and ultrafiltration (UF) are versatile separation and purification tools for the process industries. Both of these techniques are based on the ability of pressure-driven filtration membranes to separate multi-component fluids based on molecular size, shape, and chemic...

Seawater desalination can provide water for irrigation in coastal regions where freshwater resources are scarce. Reverse osmosis (RO) is the most common technique to obtain desalinated seawater (DSW) worldwide. However, using DSW may pose an agronomic risk as RO permeates have a boron concentration above phytotoxicity thresholds of some sensitive crops, such woody crops (0.5 1.0 mg/L). In this ...

Seawater as abundant source for clean water is deemed impossible task, particularly in developing country. Therefore, the feasibility of applying reverse osmosis technology, coastal area drinking need further investigation. This paper aims to design and analyze performance small-scale desalination plant using combination multi tray aerator, media filter, multiple membranes consisting ultrafiltr...

Pressure retarded osmosis has the potential to produce renewable energy from natural salinity gradients. This work presents the fabrication of thin-film composite membranes customized for high performance in pressure retarded osmosis. We also present the development of a theoretical model to predict the water flux in pressure retarded osmosis, from which we can predict the power density that ca...

In this study, the applicability of nanofiltration (NF) membranes as a pretreatment prior to reverse osmosis (RO) in seawater desalination was investigated. The membranes used wereNF270 and NF90 as the NF membranes, while the brackish water (BW) RO membrane BW30 was used as the RO membrane. In desalination tests, permeates of the NF membraneswere collected and used as the feed to th...