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DESALINATION
Volume 240, Issue 1-3, Pages 274-279Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2008.01.052
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Wastewater reclamation; Nanofiltration; Reverse osmosis; Volume concentration factor
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Wastewater reclamation and reuse are being widely implemented due to the lack of fresh water. When salinity is a limiting parameter to obtain the required water quality for agricultural uses. a desalination step is necessary to achieve it. Therefore, techniques Such as nanofiltration (NF) or reverse osmosis (RO) can play an Important role and have to be deeply Studied in order to implement all economically feasible tertiary treatment. In this work, NF of a secondary effluent from a Municipal wastewater treatment plant has been evaluated for increasing feed concentration in order to reach a Final conversion of approximately 75%. Experiments were carried out with a laboratory plant containing a spiral wound membrane (DURASLICK-2540, General Electric) with an active area of 2.2 m(2). Tests were performed increasing volume concentration factors (VCFs) Lip to almost 4 and replicated three times to confirm the results statistically. After NF experiments all RO step of the retentate was carried out in order to concentrate the final brine. In NF experiments, for the highest VCF values, fluxes recommended for the membrane maker (17 L m(-2) h(-1)) were produced at a transmembrane pressure (TMP) of 3.2 bar. The TMP hardly increased with the VCF.NF membranes yielded a conductivity retention index around 42%. reaching nearly 99% for sulphate ions and only 23% for chloride ions.
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