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Two-stage FO-BWRO/NF treatment of saline waters

Altaee, A. and Ismail, A. F. and Sharif, A. and Zaragoza, G. and Carvalho, P. C. (2016) Two-stage FO-BWRO/NF treatment of saline waters. Desalination and Water Treatment, 57 (11). pp. 4842-4852. ISSN 1944-3994

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Abstract

Two-stage forward osmosis (FO)–reverse osmosis (RO)/BWRO and conventional RO/BWRO processes were evaluated for saline water treatment. Three different salts, NaCl, MgCl2 and MgSO4, were used as a draw solution. The performance of FO, RO and BWRO regeneration processes was simulated using predeveloped software. The simulation results showed that the water and solute flux across the FO membrane decreased with increasing the FO recovery rate. The highest water flux was in case of 1.2 mol NaCl draw solution for seawater desalination. The total power consumption for seawater desalination was lower in the RO process than in the FO–RO process. However, as the RO recovery rate increased, the difference in total power consumption between the conventional RO process and 0.65 mol MgCl2 FO–RO processes was insignificant. In case of brackish water desalination, the lowest specific power consumption and permeate TDS were in case of the conventional BWRO process and then followed by 0.32 mol MgSO4, 0.22 mol MgCl2 and 0.33 mol NaCl FO-BWRO processes. However, the specific power consumption of RO-BWRO process dropped to less than that in the conventional BWRO process when NF membrane was used for MgSO4 regeneration and water extraction. In general, the high recovery rate can be achieved by the FO–RO/BWRO process which is particularly important especially in case of inland desalination.

Item Type:Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:Brackish water desalination, Desalination, Forward osmosis, Reverse osmosis, Two-stage desalination
Subjects:T Technology > TP Chemical technology
Divisions:Chemical Engineering
ID Code:73737
Deposited By: Haliza Zainal
Deposited On:18 Nov 2017 03:32
Last Modified:18 Nov 2017 03:32

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