Spelling suggestions: "subject:"reverse osmosis "" "subject:"everse osmosis ""
21 |
Impact of gel morphology on pore-filled membranes /McCrory, Christopher T. C. January 2001 (has links)
Thesis (Ph.D.) -- McMaster University, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available via World Wide Web.
|
22 |
Removal of boron from produced water by co-precipitation/adsorption for reverse osmosis concentrate a thesis /Rahman, Imran. Nelson, Yarrow Michael, January 1900 (has links)
Thesis (M.S.)--California Polytechnic State University, 2009. / Title from PDF title page; viewed on Sept. 16, 2009. "June 2009." "In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree [of] Master of Science in Civil and Environmental Engineering." "Presented to the faculty of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo." Major professor: Yarrow Nelson, Ph.D. Includes bibliographical references (p. 96-100).
|
23 |
Development, optimization and implementation of the design for a centrifugal reverse-osmosis desalination systemWild, Peter Martin 19 June 2018 (has links)
A new method of sea water desalination, Centrifugal Reverse-Osmosis (CRO), is
developed from concept to patented design and functional prototype of capacity 11,355
litres of fresh water per day. CRO is shown to have significant benefits relative to the
leading existing desalination technology, conventional reverse-osmosis. These benefits
include: lower energy consumption, reduced initial and replacement membrane costs,
lower noise levels and improved reliability. CRO is projected to show increasing cost
efficiency as plant capacity increases. For a relatively large CRO plant, 65lm³ fresh
water per day, the total cost of desalinated water is projected to be 25.9% lower than the
total cost of water produced by a conventional RO plant of equivalent capacity. The
current patented design requires further development in order to realize this potential.
Toward this end, a computational and experimental study of rotor windage losses and an
experimental study of fluid flow losses through the rotor are conducted. In addition a
new method for the analysis of stresses in a filament wound rotor shell under combined
centrifugal and pressure loading is developed. / Graduate
|
24 |
Development and application of ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis membranesMalherbe, Gideon Francois January 1993 (has links)
Thesis (Masters Diploma (Technology)--Cape Technikon, Cape Town,1993 / Various experimental and established membranes were tested on industrial effluents. Ultrafiltration,
reverse osmosis and nanofiltration membranes were used in various applications. Research was done
on aspects such as the cleaning of fouled membranes, production quality control and process
development.
Polyvinyl alcohol ultra-thin-film reverse osmosis membranes were manufactured for the desalination of
brackish water to a potable standard. The membranes were manufactured in the tubular
configuration.
Experimental ultrafiltration, reverse osmosis and nanofiltration membranes were tested on cooling
water blowdown on a laboratory-scale. On-site testing was done directly on the effluent at a later
stage. A s!udy was also conducted to determine the effect of gel-polarization on membrane
performance. The gel-layer model was used to predict the limiting flux of specific membranes.
Membrane processes were also applied in the fractionation of wine-lees to provide usable by-products
such as yeast cells and potassium bitartrate. Ultrafiltration membranes operated in diafiltration mode
were used to "wash" the slurry at different solid concentrations. The bitartrate-rich permeate collected
from ultrafiltration was then concentrated using reverse osmosis and nanofiltration to allow
subsequent precipitation of the product.
|
25 |
Synthesis, characterization of poly(amidesulfonamide)s (PASAs) and their applications in reverse osmosis and pervaporation processesHe, Xumin 01 January 1998 (has links)
No description available.
|
26 |
Electrospun Pretreatment MembranesJanuary 2020 (has links)
abstract: Managing water resources has become one of the most pressing concerns of scientists both in academia and industry. The reverse osmosis (RO) water treatment process is a well-researched technology among the pressure driven processes to produce potable water. RO is an energy intensive process and often RO membranes are susceptible to fouling and scaling that drives up operational cost and hinder the efficiency. To increase the performance of RO membranes the feed water is pretreated to remove pollutants before desalination. This work aims to fabricate pretreatment membranes to prevent the effects of fouling and scaling by introducing hydrophilic character to membrane. This work explores electrospinning, a cost-effective and scalable technique, to blend two polymers into a nonwoven membrane comprised of fibers ~100 nm - 10 µm in diameter.
A rotary drum collector holding the mat was used to simultaneously collect the electrospun hydrophobic poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC) and hydrophilic poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) fibers from two separate solutions. The hydrophilicity of the resulting membrane was tuned by controlling the relative deposition rate of PVA onto the co-spun mat. Fiber diameter and morphologies were characterized by scanning electron microscopy, and Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy and Confocal fluorescence microscopy further confirmed the presence of both polymers. Moreover, a rigorous analysis to map the PVA/PVC concentration was established to accurately report the relative concentrations of the two polymers on the co-spun mat. After electrospinning, the PVA in the co-spun mats were cross-linked with poly(ethylene glycol) diacid to impart mechanical strength and tune the porosity.
EDS analysis revealed inconsistencies in the mass deposition of both polymers suggesting an improvement in the current experimental design to establish a meaningful relationship between PVA concentration and hydrophilicity. However, tensile test revealed that co-spun mats with high mass flow ratios of PVA possessed high mechanical strength showing a significant improvement in the Young’s Modulus. Furthermore, the co-spun mats were challenged with filtration experiments expecting a positive correlation of flux with PVA concentration. But it was found that with increased concentration, crosslinked PVA constricted PVC fibers minimizing the pores causing a lower flux and a dense membrane structure suitable for filtration. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Chemical Engineering 2020
|
27 |
The feasibility of reverse osmosis as a water reclamation process with special reference to the rejection of organic compoundsSchutte, Christiaan Frederik January 1986 (has links)
This thesis deals with water reclamation and water reuse in the South African water supply context. The overall objective of the study is to assess the potential role and feasibility of reverse osmosis as a water reclamation process. In order to achieve this objective a number of separate desk, laboratory and pilot plant studies were conducted. It was concluded from the first desk study that a significant potential role exists for reverse osmosis in the South African water economy, mainly for the treatment of industrial effluents and, in the longer term, for the reclamation of water from sewage effluents and for the treatment of effluents and recycled water in indirect water reuse situations. A cost analysis showed that reverse osmosis could become economically viable in some water reuse situations in the near future provided that a productive membrane life of about three years can be achieved and that membrane fluxes can be maintained at design rates. These findings indicated the need for a pilot plant study to determine the effects of pretreatment and membrane cleaning on flux levels and rejection. A 50 m³/d pilot plant was designed and operated for a period of about six months from which it was concluded that acceptable flux levels can be maintained in tubular reverse osmosis plants treating well-oxidized activated sludge effluent with and without extensive pretreatment, provided both chemical and physical cleaning methods are employed. The desk study on the rejection of contaminants by reverse osmosis membranes indicated the need for a simple model that can be used to predict the removal of organic compounds of interest in water reclamation applications. It was concluded from a fundamental laboratory study, which included the evaluation of existing membrane models against laboratory data, that the solvophobic theory can be adapted in a simplified form to predict the transport of dissolved organic compounds in relatively non-polar reverse osmosis membranes. Based on reverse osmosis, diffusion, sorption and desorption data a mechanism is, furthermore, proposed for the transport of phenol in different membranes.
|
28 |
Enhanced Chemical Cleaning of Reverse Osmosis Membranes to Mitigate BiofoulingSanawar, Huma 10 1900 (has links)
The effectiveness of reverse osmosis (RO) membrane systems may be compromised due to fouling, of which biofouling (excessive growth of biomass) is the most troublesome. Effective control of biofouling is essential to improve membrane performance and reduce operating costs. The periodic application of chemical cleaning agents is possibly the most widely practiced method of biofouling control in RO membranes. This research investigated advanced chemical cleaning strategies for biofouling control. The first part of this study concluded that short-term accelerated biofouling studies using lab-scale membrane fouling simulators (MFSs) are a representative and suitable approach for the prediction of long-term biofouling development in membrane systems. Thereon, the superior efficiency of urea as an alternative to conventional chemical cleaning agents was demonstrated (i) at lab-scale using MFSs, (ii) for full-scale industrial spiral-wound membranes and (iii) for multiple cleaning cycles during long-term operation. Periodic chemical cleaning with urea resulted in better restoration of membrane performance, higher biomass inactivation, enhanced biofilm solubilization and removal, disintegration of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) particularly proteins, and a considerable reduction of key biofilm-forming bacteria. This research presented enhanced chemical cleaning strategies aiming to increase the removal of biofilms, reduce biomass accumulation and its impact on membrane performance, and delay fresh biofilm formation.
|
29 |
Economic optimisation of seawater reverse osmosis desalination with boron rejectionPatroklou, G., Mujtaba, Iqbal M. January 2014 (has links)
No / Reverse Osmosis (RO) process is widely used for seawater desalination. In this work, we considered a small scale SWRO (Spiral Wound Reverse Osmosis) desalination unit which is enough to cover the need of a medium size hotel complex at Limassol city in Cyprus. The pH of the seawater in the region is 7.95 and the temperature varies from 17 to 27 °C. The aim of this study is to identify the configuration of the RO process and the optimum operating parameters such as pH and pressure that can minimise the total annualised cost of the process subject to acceptable quality of freshwater in terms of boron concentrations throughout the year. For this purpose, the mathematical model for boron rejection developed earlier by the authors is used but incorporates cost functions. The model is based on solution-diffusion model which can describe solvent and solute transport mechanism through the membranes. With the variation of seasonal seawater temperature, the key finding of this study was that by choosing the right combination of pH and pressure, substantial economical savings up to 16 % could be achieved.
|
30 |
Reverse osmosis for water treatment.Allick, Lester Randolph January 1967 (has links)
No description available.
|
Page generated in 0.0545 seconds