NDLI: Improvement of water desalination technologies in reverse osmosis plants

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Author	Vysotskii, S. P. Koval’chik, M. V. Gul’ko, S. E.
Copyright Year	2017
Abstract	The strengthening of requirements for the protection of surface-water sources and increases in the cost of reagents lead to the necessity of using membrane (especially, reverse osmosis) technologies of water desalination as an alternative to ion-exchange technologies. The peculiarities of using reverse osmosis technologies in the desalination of waters with an increased salinity have been discussed. An analogy has been made between the dependence of the adsorptive capacity of ion-exchange resins on the reagent consumption during ion exchange and the dependence of the specific ion flux on the voltage in the electrodialysis and productivity of membrane elements on the excess of the pressure of source water over the osmotic pressure in reverse osmosis. It has been proposed to regulate the number of water desalination steps in reverse osmosis plants, which makes it possible to flexibly change the productivity of equipment and the level of desalinization, depending on the requirements for the technological process. It is shown that the selectivity of reverse osmotic membranes with respect to bivalent ions (calcium, magnesium, and sulfates) is approximately four times higher than the selectivity with respect to monovalent ions (sodium and chlorine). The process of desalination in reverse osmosis plants depends on operation factors, such as the salt content and ion composition of source water, the salt content of the concentrate, and the temperatures of solution and operating pressure, and the design features of devices, such as the length of the motion of the desalination water flux, the distance between membranes, and types of membranes and turbulators (spacers). To assess the influence of separate parameters on the process of reverse osmosis desalination of water solutions, we derived criteria equations by compiling problem solution matrices on the basis of the dimensional method, taking into account the Huntley complement. The operation of membrane elements was analyzed and the dependence of the output of desalinated water (permeate) through the membranes on the pressure of influent water for desalination and the dependence of the permeate output on the water viscosity and the dependence of the specific permeate output on the velocity and length of the motion of the desalination water flux were built. The values of the optimum pressure of source influent water for desalination in a reverse osmosis device were found. Provided the current prices for membrane elements (800 to 1200 USD) and cost of electricity (0.06–0.1 USD), the optimum pressure is 1.0 to 1.4 MPa.
Starting Page	542
Ending Page	548
Page Count	7
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00406015
Journal	Thermal Engineering
Volume Number	64
Issue Number	7
e-ISSN	15556301
Language	English
Publisher	Pleiades Publishing
Publisher Date	2017-06-24
Publisher Place	Moscow
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	makeup water desalination permeate pressure reverse osmosis criteria equations Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Energy Engineering and Power Technology Nuclear Energy and Engineering

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