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Vanessa Mendoza-Grimón, Juan Ramón Fernández-Vera, Jose Manuel Hernández-Moreno and María del Pino Palacios-Díaz
In the Canary Islands, there is a hydrological imbalance between water consumption and renewable water availability. To provide more water resources, reverse osmosis (RO) from seawater is used. As boron (B) contents in irrigation water higher than 0.7 mg...
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J. Feo-García, A. Pulido-Alonso, A. Florido-Betancor and N. R. Florido-Suárez
The analysis of energy consumption in reverse osmosis desalination plants is the most important and relevant factor to study, because this parameter indicates the level of efficiency and competitiveness of the plant. The direct consequence of the high sp...
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Mudhar A. Al-Obaidi, Farhan Lafta Rashid, Arman Ameen, Mohammed Kadhom and Iqbal M. Mujtaba
Due to its high pollutant rejection and low energy usage, the spiral wound module of reverse osmosis (RO) process is the most commonly used technology utilised in wastewater treatment. For a spiral wound module, the presence of a feed spacer is important...
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Alexei Pervov and Dmitry Spitsov
Reverse osmosis is efficiently used for producing drinking water from groundwater sources containing dissolved impurities, including fluoride, ammonia, lithium, strontium, boron, arsenic, etc. The principal problems of utilizing reverse osmosis include s...
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Esteban Manuel Villena-Martínez, Paola Andrea Alvizuri-Tintaya, Vanesa Gladys Lo-Iacono-Ferreira, Jaime Lora-García, Juan Ignacio Torregrosa-López, Lorena Sánchez Barrero, Alejandra Leigue Fernández and Paul D?Abzac
The accelerated deterioration of water quality in the city of Tarija, Bolivia, has caused several water sources in the Municipality of Tarija to be discontinued due to the presence of toxic contaminants. The current water purification systems that are us...
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Reyana Islam and Yoshiki Nishi
Increasing plastic fragments (PFs) in the environment have attracted considerable social and academic attention. Several methods have been proposed to mitigate plastic pollution, such as filtration and degradation. This study focuses on the removal of pl...
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Wuhib Zeine Ousman, Esayas Alemayehu and Patricia Luis
Fluoride is a concern for human health at high concentrations, but it is also a valuable compound with multiple applications. Thus, having a system that gives the opportunity to remove and recover this valuable element from water is highly interesting. R...
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Biao Zhou, Tiejian Zhang and Fei Wang
There are several industrial processes in which heavy metals are used, including but not limited to chrome plating and tanning. Amongst the most toxic heavy metals to human health are arsenic, cadmium, chromium, lead, copper, nickel, and mercury. The afo...
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Sourour Mzahma, Joelle Duplay, Dalila Souguir, Raja Ben Amar, Malika Ghazi and Mohamed Hachicha
Several processes have been developed to treat the textile effluents. Membrane technologies are among the most reliable processes for purifying these effluents. However, due to high costs, only reduced quantities are being treated. The recycling practice...
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Miles Schelling, Kavita Patil and Thomas B. Boving
This study demonstrates that an induced bank filter (IBF) system can treat raw water polluted with Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria. Similar to riverbank filtration (RBF), induced or reversed bank filtration relies on natural processes to clean water,...
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