scholarly journals Recent Advances in Measuring and Controlling Biofouling of Seawater Reverse Osmosis SWRO: A Review

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rana H. Idais ◽  
Azzam A. Abuhabib ◽  
Sofiah Hamzah
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Reverse Osmosis ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Seawater Desalination ◽  
Real Time Monitoring ◽  
Challenging Issue ◽  
Recent Advances ◽  
Membrane Biofouling ◽  
Seawater Reverse Osmosis ◽  
And Control

This study presents recent literature that sheds light on the SWRO membrane biofouling, Inventory of causes, consequences, measurement, and possible solutions. In particular, biofouling of SWRO is considered as one of the challenges faced by seawater desalination today. For seawater desalination, mitigating membrane biofouling is essentially required and yet to be overcome. Specific shortcomings and prospective solutions are reviewed towards understanding the biofouling mechanism, pretreatment impacts, level of assimilable nutrients, and real-time monitoring. Accordingly, this review aims to address recent advances in biological fouling measurements and control to better understand biofouling and the best ways of dealing with such a challenging issue.

scholarly journals Recent advances in measuring and modeling reverse osmosis membrane fouling in seawater desalination: a review

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren Weinrich ◽  
Charles N. Haas ◽  
Mark W. LeChevallier
Keyword(s):  
Reverse Osmosis ◽  
Membrane Fouling ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Assimilable Organic Carbon ◽  
Current State ◽  
Recent Advances ◽  
Membrane Biofouling ◽  
Seawater Reverse Osmosis ◽  
Seawater Treatment

A review of recent literature focuses on the fouling phenomena in membrane systems for desalination, quantification and qualification of parameters related to biological fouling (biofouling), and emerging areas for prevention. In particular, biofouling of seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) is widely regarded as the most important area for future research on this topic. Reducing membrane fouling is fundamental to seawater treatment but is not well managed. The current state of industry knowledge is evaluated with particular focus on SWRO membrane biofouling, as well as its measurement and mitigation. Specific shortcomings and possible solutions are reviewed regarding the role of assimilable organic carbon, chemical treatment and other components in understanding the fouling process, impacts from pretreatment, level of assimilable nutrients, modeling applications, and real time monitoring. A critical review of recent advances in understanding organic and biological fouling is presented because these are the most difficult to control and least understood.

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.

Process modeling and control applied to real-time monitoring of distillation processes by near-infrared spectroscopy

2017 ◽  
Vol 985 ◽  
pp. 41-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodrigo R. de Oliveira ◽  
Ricardo H.P. Pedroza ◽  
A.O. Sousa ◽  
Kássio M.G. Lima ◽  
Anna de Juan
Keyword(s):  
Infrared Spectroscopy ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Near Infrared Spectroscopy ◽  
Process Modeling ◽  
Near Infrared ◽  
Real Time Monitoring ◽  
Modeling And Control ◽  
And Control
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