Recent progress in reverse osmosis modeling: An overview

MM Zubair, H Saleem, SJ Zaidi - Desalination, 2023 - Elsevier
The increasing worldwide demand for freshwater production requires new and sustainable
processes to overcome the shortage of clean water. Reverse osmosis (RO) is regarded as …

[PDF][PDF] Requiring Reverse Osmosis Membranes Modifications—An Overview

D Ghernaout, A El-Wakil - American Journal of Chemical …, 2017 - academia.edu
Do really reverse osmosis (RO) membranes need modification to cover their disadvantages
or enhance their efficiency? Are there any defects in RO membranes manufacturing that …

Energy consumption for desalination—A comparison of forward osmosis with reverse osmosis, and the potential for perfect membranes

NM Mazlan, D Peshev, AG Livingston - Desalination, 2016 - Elsevier
Reverse osmosis (RO) is now the most ubiquitous technology for desalination, with
numerous seawater RO plants being built in water-stressed countries to complement …

Effect of thermodynamic restriction on energy cost optimization of RO membrane water desalination

A Zhu, PD Christofides, Y Cohen - Industrial & Engineering …, 2009 - ACS Publications
Advances in highly permeable reverse osmosis (RO) membranes have enabled desalting
operations, in which it is practically feasible for the applied pressure to approach the osmotic …

Overview of systems engineering approaches for a large-scale seawater desalination plant with a reverse osmosis network

YM Kim, SJ Kim, YS Kim, S Lee, IS Kim, JH Kim - Desalination, 2009 - Elsevier
Over 100 papers were reviewed to elucidate factors influencing large-scale seawater
desalination plants with reverse osmosis networks (SWRO). This paper consists of subjects …

Optimum design of reverse osmosis system under different feed concentration and product specification

YY Lu, YD Hu, XL Zhang, LY Wu, QZ Liu - Journal of membrane science, 2007 - Elsevier
The design of various multistage RO systems under different feed concentration and product
specification is presented in this work. An optimization method using the process synthesis …

Evaluation and minimisation of energy consumption in a medium-scale reverse osmosis brackish water desalination plant

AA Alsarayreh, MA Al-Obaidi, AM Al-Hroub… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Reverse Osmosis (RO) process has been expansively used in water treatment
as a result of its low energy consumption compared to thermal distillation processes, leading …

Organic solvent nanofiltration: a potential alternative to distillation for solvent recovery from crystallisation mother liquors

EM Rundquist, CJ Pink, AG Livingston - Green Chemistry, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Increasing demand for more sustainable processing has led to a renewed interest in the
area of solvent recovery within the pharmaceutical industry. Distillation has been the …

[HTML][HTML] Performance of reverse osmosis based desalination process using spiral wound membrane: Sensitivity study of operating parameters under variable …

SH Aladwani, MA Al-Obaidi, IM Mujtaba - Cleaner Engineering and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Reverse Osmosis (RO) process accounts for 80% of the world desalination capacity.
Apparently, there is a rapid increase of deploying the RO process in seawater desalination …

Simulating trans-boundary watershed water resources conflict

S Lu, Z Lian, H Sun, X Wu, X Bai, C Wang - Resources Policy, 2021 - Elsevier
With the rapid development of economy, the water shortage and water intake competition
have been further intensified, resulting in the conflict of water resources development. This …