This study addresses the possibility for low pressure reverse osmosis membrane (RE 2521, CSM) process to serve as an alternative to remove selected antibiotics (ampicillin and amoxicillin) from synthetic wastewater by changing operating conditions such as pH = 3, 6.5 and 10; Pressure = 9, 11 and13 (bar); antibiotic concentration = 10, 255 and 500(mg/L), and temperature = 20, 30 and 40°C. The ex...

This paper describes the development of a decision support system (DSS) for evaluating membrane restoration strategy. The engine DSS is digital twin (DT), virtual representation wear (degradation) and elements in reverse osmosis (RO) pressure vessel. basis DT mathematical model that an RO vessel as novel multi-component which wear-states individual (components) are quantified can be swapped or ...

Oily wastewaters from oil refineries and oil distribution centers are one of the most important environmental concerns in recent decades; therefore, it is critical to treat these types of wastewaters. In this study, the performance of different polyethersulfone hollow fiber membranes in oily wastewaters treatment was investigated and the effects of operating conditions such as transmembrane pre...

The economic impact of fouling in spiral wound membranes is not yet well explored. There has been an established assumption that the cost membrane processes significant, but this hypothesis thoroughly evaluated. We conducted analysis on seven full-scale installations, four nanofiltration (NF) and three reverse osmosis (RO), to estimate industrial plants. was calculated detail, including costs i...

Biofouling is a major reason for flux decline in the performance of membrane-based water and wastewater treatment plants. Initial biochemical characterization of biofilm formation potential and biofouling on two commercially available membrane surfaces from FilmTec Corporation were investigated without filtration in laboratory rotating disc reactor systems. These surfaces were polyamide aromati...

results the mean kt/v was 1.27 ± 0.28 in high-flux and 1.10 ± 0.32 in low-flux membrane which, these differences were statistically significant (p = 0.017). the mean of urr was 0.65 ± 0.09 in high-flux and 0.61 ± 0.14 in low-flux membrane, which these differences were not statistically significant (p = 0.221). patients and methods forty hemodialysis patients participated in this cross-over clin...

effluent from ro (reverse osmosis) systems during recovery gradually becomes concentrated and supersaturated with soluble salts such as calcium carbonate (caco3), calcium sulfate (caso4), barium sulfate (baso4) and silica (sio2). thus we were looking for procedures to prevent precipitation of soluble salts on the membrane surface and decrease membrane permeability. therefore, recovery could be ...

A new mathematical model was developed to predict the cylindrical effect of membrane performance in pressure retarded osmosis process. The transport layers (the draw side boundary and porous membrane) were divided into very thin sublayers with constant mass parameters, among others a radius every sublayer. obtained second-order differential balance equations solved analytically, parameters writ...