The evaluation of a membrane bioreactor (MBR) for pretreatment of reverse osmosis (RO) in order to reuse and reclamation of industrial town wastewater treatment plant was investigated in this study. Performance of MBR effluent through water quality in term of parameters such as chemical oxygen demand (COD), total suspended solids (TSS), total nitrogen (TN) and total coliform (TC) were measured....

Multiple Effect Distillation (MED) is generally considered to be the desalination technology most suited to integration with concentrating solar thermal collectors on a medium to large scale. However the cost and energy requirement of Reverse Osmosis (RO) have fallen significantly in recent years, so that solar thermal powered RO deserves consideration. We compare commercial desalination proces...

a headspace-solid phase microextraction (hs-spme) and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (gc-ms) method has been developed for the simultaneously determination of 20 disinfection by-products (dbps) in water samples from reverse osmosis (ro) membranes. selected compounds belong to different families including: trihalomethanes (thms), halogenated acetonitriles (hans), halogenated nitromethanes ...

Post-treatment of an anaerobic fermentation broth was evaluated using a 150 gal/day, single cartridge prototype reverse osmosis (RO) system. Baseline tests were conducted at 25 degrees C using six organic model compounds representing key species found in the fermentation broth: ethanol, butanol, acetic acid, oxalic acid, lactic acid, and butyric acid. Correlations of the rejection and recovery ...

Dyes fouling of reverse osmosis (RO) membranes and its relation to adsorption had been investigated by using a crossflow RO filtration setup. Methylene blue (MB) and rhodamine B (RB) were used as model organic foulants. The calculated amount of the irreversible sorption was related to the irreversible flux decline. The characteristic fouling kinetics was accounted by Langmuir-Hinshelwood (L-H) ...

Wastewater from the wood and pulp industry is of environmental concern. It contains high concentrations of organic and inorganic matter. In this work a combined method of coagulation, adsorption and nanofiltration/reverse osmosis (NF/RO) was investigated in the purification of biologically treated wastewater from wood processing. Coagulation with 0.8 g dm(-3) AlCl3 x 6H2O and adsorption on 2.5 ...

Brines produced by desalination processes such as reverse osmosis (RO), electrodialysis reversal (EDR) and ion-exchange (IX) holds pollution potential for the water environment if not properly handled. These brines contain a high water content (95–98%) and chemicals that could possibly be recovered for reuse. Therefore, direct contact membrane distillation (DCMD) which has the potential for wat...

Water scarcity threatens the health and development of countries worldwide due to rapid expansion population climate change, pushing government find more innovative sustainable ways address water stress. Governments have adopted reverse Osmosis (RO) seawater desalination technology for its cheap raw intake stability. However, environmental financial sustainability remains disputable. In this st...

Reverse osmosis (RO) is a water purifcation technology that uses a semipermeable membrane to remove ions, molecules, and larger particles for the production of drinking water. The frst RO membrane for seawater desalination, wastewater treatment and other applications were made of cellulose acetate. But, the polyamide thin-flm composite membrane that can tolerate wide pH...

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...