Hollow Fiber FO Membrane Modules and Seawater Desalination Technology Using FO Process

MEMBRANE ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-15
Author(s):  
Atsuo Kumano
Keyword(s):  
Hollow Fiber ◽  
Seawater Desalination ◽  
Membrane Modules ◽  
Desalination Technology

scholarly journals Environmental Performance of Small-Scale Seawater Reverse Osmosis Plant for Rural Area Water Supply

Membranes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 40
Author(s):  
Latifah Abdul Ghani ◽  
Nora’aini Ali ◽  
Ilyanni Syazira Nazaran ◽  
Marlia M. Hanafiah
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Water Supply ◽  
Reverse Osmosis ◽  
Resource Scarcity ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Seawater Desalination ◽  
Seawater Reverse Osmosis ◽  
Desalination Technology ◽  
The Impact

Seawater desalination is an alternative technology to provide safe drinking water and to solve water issues in an area having low water quality and limited drinking water supply. Currently, reverse osmosis (RO) is commonly used in the desalination technology and experiencing significant growth. The aim of this study was to analyze the environmental impacts of the seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) plant installed in Kampung Pantai Senok, Kelantan, as this plant was the first installed in Malaysia. The software SimaPro 8.5 together with the ReCiPe 2016 database were used as tools to evaluate the life cycle assessment (LCA) of the SWRO plant. The results showed that the impact of global warming (3.90 kg CO2 eq/year) was the highest, followed by terrestrial ecotoxicity (1.62 kg 1,4-DCB/year) and fossil resource scarcity (1.29 kg oil eq/year). The impact of global warming was caused by the natural gas used to generate the electricity, mainly during the RO process. Reducing the environmental impact can be effectively achieved by decreasing the electricity usage for the seawater desalination process. As a suggestion, electricity generation can be overcome by using a high-flux membrane with other suitable renewable energy for the plant such as solar and wind energy.

Hollow fiber composite membrane modules for reverse osmosis

Desalination ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 22 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 221-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.B. Davis ◽  
R.D. Burchesky ◽  
M.J. Coplan
Keyword(s):  
Reverse Osmosis ◽  
Composite Membrane ◽  
Hollow Fiber ◽  
Fiber Composite ◽  
Hollow Fiber Composite Membrane ◽  
Membrane Modules

Experimental analysis of foulant deposition in submerged hollow fiber membrane modules

2013 ◽  
Vol 51 (31-33) ◽  
pp. 6346-6354 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoon-Jin Kim ◽  
Taekgun Yun ◽  
Jinsik Sohn ◽  
Sangho Lee
Keyword(s):  
Hollow Fiber ◽  
Experimental Analysis ◽  
Hollow Fiber Membrane ◽  
Fiber Membrane ◽  
Membrane Modules

scholarly journals Polymeric Hollow Fibers: State of the Art Review of Their Preparation, Characterization and Applications in Different Research Areas

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
K.C. Khulbe ◽  
C. Feng ◽  
T. Matsuura ◽  
M. Khayet
Keyword(s):  
Hollow Fiber ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Hollow Fiber Membrane ◽  
Waste Water Treatment ◽  
Hollow Fibers ◽  
Hollow Fiber Membranes ◽  
Seawater Desalination ◽  
Fiber Morphology ◽  
Fiber Technology ◽  
Fiber Membranes

In this article an attempt is made to review critically the papers published recently on polymeric hollow fibers and hollow fiber membranes. Hollow fiber membranes emerged in early nineteen sixties at almost the same time as the announcement of the cellulose acetate reverse osmosis membrane for seawater desalination by Loeb and Sourirajan. Since then, the hollow fiber technology has progressed along with the industrial membrane separation processes. Today, hollow fiber membranes are being used in every sector of the manufacturing industry, including gas and vapor separation, seawater desalination and waste water treatment. The fabrication of a hollow fiber membrane with a desirable pore–size distribution and performance is not an easy task. There are many factors controlling fiber morphology during the phase inversion process and, at present, we are not able to say that we fully understand the phenomena involved in the fabrication of hollow fibers. Nevertheless, there has been a large amount of knowledge accumulated during the past fifteen years, which has been supported by an equally large amount of efforts by many researchers. This paper attempts to summarize those works. The authors could however look into only those reports which have appeared in scientific journals and few patents, and they are fully aware that there must be much more information that has not surfaced to the journal publication. It is also the authors’ intention to show the future direction including the research topics that have been studied only little or not at all.

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