Rapid increase in population and industrialization leads to huge generation of solid waste throughout the country with landfilling as the most common practice for management of these solid waste. It is estimated that out of 3267 MLD of sewage is generated in Delhi. Concentrations of COD, BOD5, heavy metals, NH4AN, low BOD5/COD ratio and the lack of nutrients in the methanogenic phase have restr...

Reducing the energy consumption of membrane desalination is critical to reducing its cost of water and minimizing desalination’s CO2 emissions. Hybrids of reverse osmosis (RO) with ultrapermeable membranes promise to address the efficiency, rejection, and fouling issues. In a batch reverse osmosis (BRO) process, salinity is varied over time so that the applied pressure better matches osmotic pr...

Please cite this article as: Barredo-Damas S., Alcaina-Miranda M. I., Iborra-Clar M. I. and Mendoza-Roca J. A., (2010), Application of nanofiltration/reverse osmosis membranes to textile effluents aiming its reclamation and reuse: influence of operating conditions, Chemical Engineering Transactions, 21, 1027-1032 DOI: 10.3303/CET1021172 Application of Nanofiltration/Reverse Osmosis Membranes to...

A novel osmotic membrane bioreactor (OsMBR) is presented. The system utilizes a submerged forward osmosis (FO) membrane module inside a bioreactor. Through osmosis, water is transported from the mixed liquor across a semi-permeable membrane, and into a draw solution (DS) with a higher osmotic pressure. To produce potable water, the diluted DS is treated in a reverse osmosis (RO) unit; the by-pr...

An optimal control of Reverse Osmosis (RO) plant is studied in this paper utilizing the auto tuning concept in conjunction with PID controller. A control scheme composing an auto tuning stochastic technique based on an improved Genetic Algorithm (GA) is proposed. For better evaluation of the process in GA, objective function defined newly in sense of root mean square error has been used. Also i...

Water is the most important resource of Earth and significantly utilized for agriculture, urbanization, industry, population. This increases demand water; meanwhile, climatic condition decreases supply it. A rise in temperature 1 degree Celsius might dry up 20% renewable water resources, to circumvent scarcity, it necessary reuse, create, consume less without wasting desalination process used r...

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...