<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">The present case study is focused on performance evaluation of a Reverse Osmosis (RO) membrane based pilot plant to treat the ground/surface drinking water sources polluted by flood, rivers and/or canals. The RO plant was designed, fabricated and then operated with polluted water. Two feed water samples having a TDS of 2.000 mg · L−1 and 10.000 mg · L−1 respectively, were taken and analyzed for physical, chemical and microbiological contaminants. The RO plant was run once through over a span of 100 hrs at an operating pressure of 15 bar. TDS rejections were found to be more than 94% while permeate flux was measured to be 25.82 L · m−2 · hr−1 to 40.55 L · m−2 · hr−1. Results show that RO plant has a potential to remove physical, chemical and microbiological contaminants like Total Coliform and <italic>E. Coli</italic> in one step.</abstract>

The present case study is focused on performance evaluation of a Reverse Osmosis (RO) membrane based pilot plant to treat the ground/surface drinking water sources polluted by flood, rivers and/or canals. The RO plant was designed, fabricated and then operated with polluted water. Two feed water samples having a TDS of 2.000 mg · L−1 and 10.000 mg · L−1 respectively, were taken and analyzed for physical, chemical and microbiological contaminants. The RO plant was run once through over a span of 100 hrs at an operating pressure of 15 bar. TDS rejections were found to be more than 94% while permeate flux was measured to be 25.82 L · m−2 · hr−1 to 40.55 L · m−2 · hr−1. Results show that RO plant has a potential to remove physical, chemical and microbiological contaminants like Total Coliform and E. Coli in one step.

Reverse osmosis as one-step wastewater treatment: a case study on groundwater pollution

University of Engineering and Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, Peshawar-Pakistan, P.O.Box. 814, University Campus Peshawar 25120

Polish Journal of Chemical Technology

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The present case study is focused on performance evaluation of a Reverse Osmosis (RO) membrane based pilot plant to treat the ground/surface drinking water...

Reverse osmosis as one-step wastewater treatment: a case study on groundwater pollution

Publicado en línea: 27 nov 2015

Páginas: 42 - 48

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/pjct-2015-0067

Palabras clave
Reverse Osmosis (RO), membrane separation, Total Dissolved Solids (TDS), Total Coliform,

© 2015 Wajid Ali et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Reverse osmosis as one-step wastewater treatment: a case study on groundwater pollution

Publicado en línea: 27 nov 2015

Páginas: 42 - 48

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/pjct-2015-0067

Palabras claveReverse Osmosis (RO), membrane separation, Total Dissolved Solids (TDS), Total Coliform,

© 2015 Wajid Ali et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Palabras clave
Reverse Osmosis (RO), membrane separation, Total Dissolved Solids (TDS), Total Coliform,