Microbial desalination cell (MDC) is one of the cost and energy effective methods that can help people in countries with low income rural areas without infrastructure, get access to desalinated water while treating their wastewater. Despite advantages technology, less known about behavior internal resistance MDCs. Therefore, this study mainly focused on MDC from external point view. The rate sa...

Reverse osmosis membrane (RO) is becoming a most popular instrument to desalinate seawater as a result of new developments in membrane technology. The critical factor governing successful long-term reverse osmosis (RO) in desalination plants is fouling caused by the turbidity of seawater, such as by suspended solids, sparingly soluble salts, or biological growth. To reduce the turbidity, the se...

Partitioning of organic solutes between water and polyamide layer of RO and NF membranes: Correlation to rejection Adi Ben-David a, Sarit Bason a, Juergen Jopp b, Yoram Oren a, Viatcheslav Freger a,c,∗ a Department of Desalination and Water Treatment, Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research and Unit of Environmental Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, POB 635, Beer-Sheva 84105, Isr...

This paper presents sizing, energy management strategy, and cost analysis for a configuration consisting of solar photovoltaic (PV) panels, fuel cell (FC) storage system, and reverse osmosis (RO) desalination technology for combined power and fresh water production. In this system, PV is the main power supply source; fuel cell is a storage system accompanied by Hydrogen production and storage d...

This work addresses the polygeneration concept integrating concentrating solar power (CSP) with an organic Rankine cycle (ORC) to produce electricity and drinking water by hybrid desalination process combining reverse osmosis (RO) low-temperature multi-effect distillation (LTMED). Experiments carried out on a bench scale RO pilot led determine optimal operating parameters as well options mitiga...

The production of titanium dioxide via the sulfuric acid process generates large amounts acidic wastewater. Investigating possibility reusing this wastewater after deep treatment can reduce pollutant discharge and conserve water resources. In a pilot study, dual-membrane method ultrafiltration (UF) reverse osmosis (RO) was employed to perform treatments sulfuric-acid–titanium-dioxide findings s...

The use of renewable energy for desalination started in the 1980s, order to provide a sustainable water supply windy/sunny areas with shortages. Nevertheless, this initiative has been generally limited R&D field and prototypes, few units operating under real conditions. research tradition carried out by Canary Islands Institute Technology, based on pilot facilities, resulted wide expertise ...

The flexibility of membrane contactors (MCs) is highlighted for a reverse osmosis (RO) desalination plant. MCs are applied as pre-treatment the oxygen removal and pH reduction seawater, also post-treatment increase RO permeate brine volume. A decrease seawater down to neutral values, needed when coagulation used in line RO, together with an up 7.58, matching target produced water, can be obtain...