期刊
DESALINATION
卷 250, 期 1, 页码 76-81出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2009.01.042
关键词
Reverse osmosis; Synergistic fouling; Silica; Biofouling; Alginate
资金
- United States Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration [DE-AC04-94AL85000]
The formation of mineral scale deposits on membranes is a pervasive and expensive problem for the water treatment industry. A series of experiments run on a laboratory-scale reverse osmosis membrane system examined the fouling of membranes when the feed water was spiked with organic and inorganic foulants. Alginic acid was used as the organic foulant and silica was used as the inorganic foulant. Studies involving interactions of these two foulants have not previously been reported in literature. Experiments were run with each foulant individually to characterize fouling at different velocities and pressures. Experiments were then run using both foulants together to characterize the synergistic effects on membrane fouling. One set of experiments with both foulants demonstrated that alginic acid inhibits silica fouling on reverse osmosis membranes. Further experiments indicated that alginic acid added after silica fouling had already occurred was able to remove silica scale from the membrane and restore permeate flux. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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