Recent progress in reverse osmosis modeling: An overview

MM Zubair, H Saleem, SJ Zaidi - Desalination, 2023 - Elsevier
The increasing worldwide demand for freshwater production requires new and sustainable
processes to overcome the shortage of clean water. Reverse osmosis (RO) is regarded as …

How RO membrane permeability and other performance factors affect process cost and energy use: A review

Y Okamoto, JH Lienhard - Desalination, 2019 - Elsevier
Reverse osmosis (RO) technology has progressed steadily over the last few decades. Those
gains were achieved through improvements in both RO membrane element performance …

Performance assessment of solar PV-driven hybrid HDH-RO desalination system integrated with energy recovery units and solar collectors: Theoretical approach

M Abdelgaied, AE Kabeel, AW Kandeal… - Energy Conversion and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Recently, constructing a high productive desalination unit with low power consumption has
been a challenge. Along with that, this study aimed to simulate a new hybrid desalination …

Energy consumption for desalination—A comparison of forward osmosis with reverse osmosis, and the potential for perfect membranes

NM Mazlan, D Peshev, AG Livingston - Desalination, 2016 - Elsevier
Reverse osmosis (RO) is now the most ubiquitous technology for desalination, with
numerous seawater RO plants being built in water-stressed countries to complement …

Effect of thermodynamic restriction on energy cost optimization of RO membrane water desalination

A Zhu, PD Christofides, Y Cohen - Industrial & Engineering …, 2009 - ACS Publications
Advances in highly permeable reverse osmosis (RO) membranes have enabled desalting
operations, in which it is practically feasible for the applied pressure to approach the osmotic …

Overview of systems engineering approaches for a large-scale seawater desalination plant with a reverse osmosis network

YM Kim, SJ Kim, YS Kim, S Lee, IS Kim, JH Kim - Desalination, 2009 - Elsevier
Over 100 papers were reviewed to elucidate factors influencing large-scale seawater
desalination plants with reverse osmosis networks (SWRO). This paper consists of subjects …

Evaluation and minimisation of energy consumption in a medium-scale reverse osmosis brackish water desalination plant

AA Alsarayreh, MA Al-Obaidi, AM Al-Hroub… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Reverse Osmosis (RO) process has been expansively used in water treatment
as a result of its low energy consumption compared to thermal distillation processes, leading …

A novel single-pass reverse osmosis configuration for high-purity water production and low energy consumption in seawater desalination

J Kim, S Hong - Desalination, 2018 - Elsevier
Seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) desalination is required to produce high-quality water to
meet stricter water standards, which could be satisfied with single-pass RO through the …

[HTML][HTML] Simulation-based assessment of safe operating windows and optimization in full-scale seawater reverse osmosis systems

A Ruiz-García, I Nuez - Desalination, 2022 - Elsevier
Reverse osmosis (RO) is the most widely used desalination technology for both seawater
and brackish water. Unfortunately, RO remains an energy intensive technology despite the …

Performance analysis of a medium-sized industrial reverse osmosis brackish water desalination plant

MA Al-Obaidi, AA Alsarayreh, AM Al-Hroub, S Alsadaie… - Desalination, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The implementation of Reverse Osmosis (RO) technology is noticeably increased to
produce freshwater from brackish and seawater resources. In this work, performance …