Forward osmosis (FO) as emerging technology for water treatment was reported to exhibit higher solute rejections compared reverse (RO). In this work, the rejection of two uncharged organic compounds (nicotinamide, caffeine) were investigated first time in low-pressure (LPRO) mode and FO under similar process conditions utilizing same hollow fiber forward membrane modules. consistently showed th...

BACKGROUND Aluminium toxicity in dialysis patients is well described. Aluminium has a close chemical affinity with silicon. Silicon may have a role in protection against aluminium toxicity. METHODS We measured serum aluminium and silicon levels from haemodialysis patients from four different centres. RESULTS Though no relationship was seen across all centres combined, in one centre there wa...

At present, many countries in the world are facing serious water crisis, the shortage of water in our country is particularly prominent, especially refining industry, water shortage and water pollution problems in our country have seriously affected the survival of enterprises and sustainable development. In this paper, based on literature research and field investigation, two stage discharging...

Nanofiltration and reverse osmosis are investigated as a possible alternative to the conventional methods of Cr(VI) removal from model water and industrial effluent. The influences of feed concentration, water recovery, pH, and the coexisting anions were studied. The results have shown that retention rates of hexavalent chromium can reach 99.7% using nanofiltration membrane (NF-HL) and vary fro...

Enhancement of the performance of a reverse osmosis (RO) unit through periodic control is studied. The periodic control manipulates the feed pressure and flow rate of the RO unit. To ensure the periodic behavior of the inputs, the manipulated variables (MV) are transformed into the form of sinusoidal functions. In this case, the amplitude and period of the sinusoidal functions become the surrog...

The game-theoretic view of control system design for multi-loop systems is extended in this work to ensure a closed-loop system with robust stability. The control system design is modeled as a differential cooperative game to incorporate interactions between the multiple loops of the control system. A robust stability indicator is formulated as an additional cost function. The developed approac...

The purpose of this study is to develop a new approach in modeling and simulation of a reverse osmosis desalination system by using fractional differential equations. Using the Legendre wavelet method combined with the decoupling and quasi-linearization technique, we demonstrate the validity and applicability of our model. Examples are developed to illustrate the fractional differential techniq...