Technology makes the world go round . This statement is not only valid in general, but is also a true representation of the future of membranes in the field of the water treatment. Since their introduction in the late 1950 s, reverse osmosis, nanofiltration, ultrafiltration and microfiltration membranes have been increasingly used for a multiple of different applications in the field of water t...

In Project WASTEC, an experimental Reverse Osmosis (RO) desalination system was developed. It serves as a platform for testing new technologies. For this system, we solved two problems, which are described in paper. Firstly, developed and investigated strategies scheduling chemical enhanced backwashing cleaning secondly, due to the nature of project, several technological developments with resp...

In biological phenomena like osmosis, the rate of flow of water molecules in or out of biological compartments depends on the solute concentration and on other forces, like hydrostatic pressure. A similar example is the passive transport of ions in and out the cell membrane. In this paper, we address the problem of faithfully modelling these kind of phenomena with an adequate process calculus. ...

In biological phenomena like osmosis, the rate of flow of water molecules in or out of biological compartments depends on solute concentration and on hydrostatic pressure. A similar example of this kind of biological processes is the passive transport of ions in and out the cell membrane. In this paper, we address the problem of faithfully modeling these kind of phenomena with an adequate proce...

Brackish water (BW) desalination is a primary path to relieve the shortage of water. As one of the BW desalination methods, reverse osmosis (RO) technology has advantage for both technology and process procedure. The expounding of this research studied or reviewed recent years, reverse osmosis membrane, energy recovery, new energy and application technology in BW desalination of RO at home and ...

Reverse osmosis (RO) is a compact process that has potential for the removal of ionic and organic pollutants for recycling space mission wastewater. Seven candidate RO membranes were compared using a batch stirred cell to determine the membrane flux and the solute rejection for synthetic space mission wastewaters. Even though the urea molecule is larger than ions such as Na+, Cl-, and NH4+, the...

The permeation of different organic molecules in water solvent and in 12% ethanolwater solution by hydrophilic reverse osmosis membrane was studied. The membrane was conditioned to the ethanol-water solution before the experiments. Initially, the membrane was characterized by water and ethanol-water solutions. The permeation of four solutes (tyramine, proline, glucose and tartaric acid) showed ...

Forward (direct) osmosis (FO) using semi-permeable polymeric membranes may be a viable alternative to reverse osmosis as a lower cost and more environmentally friendly desalination technology. The driving force in the described FO process is provided by a draw solution comprising highly soluble gases—ammonia and carbon dioxide. Using a commercially available FO membrane, experiments conducted i...

The transmembrane electrical potential (TMEP) in a forward osmosis membrane process with a single electrolyte solution as the draw and feed solutions was investigated by experiments. The effects of membrane orientation, the electrolyte species (KCl, NaCl, MgCl2, and CaCl2), concentration and concentration ratio of solutions at both sides of membrane on water flux and TMEP were investigated. The...

A hybrid ultrafiltration-osmotic membrane bioreactor (UFO-MBR) was investigated for over 35 days for nutrient and trace organic chemical (TOrC) removal from municipal wastewater. The UFO-MBR system uses both ultrafiltration (UF) and forward osmosis (FO) membranes in parallel to simultaneously extract clean water from an activated sludge reactor for nonpotable (or environmental discharge) and po...