Seawater desalination for agriculture by integrated forward and reverse osmosis: Improved product water quality for potentially less energy

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 415-416, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-8

  Shaffer, Devin L ^a   Yip, Ngai Yin ^a   Gilron, Jack ^b   Elimelech, Menachem ^a  

^a Yale University   (United States)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Boron; Energy; Forward osmosis; Integrated process; Seawater desalination

Indexed keywords

BORON; CHLORIDE; SEA WATER;

AGRICULTURE; DESALINATION; ENERGY; ENERGY CONSERVATION; FORWARD OSMOSIS; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); NOTE; OSMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE OSMOSIS; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84864746606     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: 18733123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2012.05.016     Document Type: Note

References (42)

1. UNESCO, The 3rd United Nations World Water Development Report: Water in a Changing World, United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, 2009.
2. Vörösmarty C.J., Green P., Salisbury J., Lammers R.B. Global water resources: vulnerability from climate change and population growth. Science 2000, 289:284-288.
3. Vörösmarty C.J., Leveque C., Revenga C., Water Fresh Ecosystems and Human Well-Being: Current State and Trends 2005, 165-207. Island Press, Washington, DC. R. Hassan, R. Scholes, N. Ash (Eds.).
4. Foley J.A., Ramankutty N., Brauman K.A., Cassidy E.S., Gerber J.S., Johnston M., Mueller N.D., O'Connell C., Ray D.K., West P.C., Balzer C., Bennett E.M., Carpenter S.R., Hill J., Monfreda C., Polasky S., Rockstrom J., Sheehan J., Siebert S., Tilman D., Zaks D.P.M. Solutions for a cultivated planet. Nature 2011, 478:337-342.
5. UNDP, Beyond Scarcity: Power, Poverty, and the Global Water Crisis, Human Development Report, United Nations Development Programme, New York, 2006, p. 440.
6. Shannon M.A., Bohn P.W., Elimelech M., Georgiadis J.G., Marinas B.J., Mayes A.M. Science and technology for water purification in the coming decades. Nature 2008, 452:301-310.
7. Miller G.W. Integrated concepts in water reuse: managing global water needs. Desalination 2006, 187:65-75.
8. Elimelech M., Phillip W.A. The future of seawater desalination: energy, technology, and the environment. Science 2011, 333:712-717.
9. Greenlee L.F., Lawler D.F., Freeman B.D., Marrot B., Moulin P. Reverse osmosis desalination: water sources, technology, and today's challenges. Water Res. 2009, 43:2317-2348.
10. Committee on Advancing Desalination Technology of the National Research Council (U.S.) Desalination: A National Perspective 2008, National Academies Press, Washington, DC.
11. Semiat R. Energy issues in desalination processes. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2008, 42:8193-8201.
12. Hoover L.A., Phillip W.A., Tiraferri A., Yip N.Y., Elimelech M. Forward with osmosis: emerging applications for greater sustainability. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2011.
13. M. Wilf, The Guidebook to Membrane Desalination Technology, 2007.
14. Fritzmann C., Löwenberg J., Wintgens T., Melin T. State-of-the-art of reverse osmosis desalination. Desalination 2007, 216:1-76.
15. Desalination Committee, Seawater Desalination Power Consumption, White Paper, WateReuse Association, Alexandria, VA, 2011, p. 16.
16. World Health Organization, Guidelines for Drinking-Water Quality, Geneva, Switzerland, 2011.
17. Ayers R.S., Westcot D.W. Water quality for agriculture 1985, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy. third ed.
18. Tal A. Seeking sustainability: Israel's evolving water management strategy. Science 2006, 313:1081-1084.
19. J.M. Beltrán, S. Koo-Oshima, Water desalination for agricultural applications, in: Food and Agriculture Organization of the Nations (Ed.), Proceedings of the FAO Expert Consultation on Water Desalination for Agricultural Applications, FAO, Rome Italy, 2006.
20. Glueckstern P., Priel M. Optimization of boron removal in old and new SWRO systems. Desalination 2003, 156:219-228.
21. Sagiv A., Semiat R. Analysis of parameters affecting boron permeation through reverse osmosis membranes. J. Membr. Sci. 2004, 243:79-87.
22. Geise G.M., Park H.B., Sagle A.C., Freeman B.D., McGrath J.E. Water permeability and water/salt selectivity tradeoff in polymers for desalination. J. Membr. Sci. 2011, 369:130-138.
23. Cath T.Y., Childress A.E., Elimelech M. Forward osmosis: principles, applications, and recent developments. J. Membr. Sci. 2006, 281:70-87.
24. Achilli A., Cath T.Y., Childress A.E. Selection of inorganic-based draw solutions for forward osmosis applications. J. Membr. Sci. 2010, 364:233-241.
25. Mi B., Elimelech M. Organic fouling of forward osmosis membranes: fouling reversibility and cleaning without chemical reagents. J. Membr. Sci. 2010, 348:337-345.
26. Bamaga O.A., Yokochi A., Zabara B., Babaqi A.S. Hybrid FO/RO desalination system: preliminary assessment of osmotic energy recovery and designs of new FO membrane module configurations. Desalination 2011, 268:163-169.
27. Bamaga O.A., Yokochi A., Beaudry E.G. Application of forward osmosis in pretreatment of seawater for small reverse osmosis desalination units. Desalination Water Treat. 2009, 5:183-191.
28. Zhao S., Zou L., Mulcahy D. Brackish water desalination by a hybrid forward osmosis-nanofiltration system using divalent draw solute. Desalination 2012, 284:175-181.
29. Tan C.H., Ng H.Y. A novel hybrid forward osmosis-nanofiltration (FO-NF) process for seawater desalination: draw solution selection and system configuration. Desalination Water Treat. 2010, 13:356-361.
30. Cath T.Y., Hancock N.T., Lundin C.D., Hoppe-Jones C., Drewes J.E. A multi-barrier osmotic dilution process for simultaneous desalination and purification of impaired water. J. Membr. Sci. 2010, 362:417-426.
31. Phillip W.A., Yong J.S., Elimelech M. Reverse draw solute permeation in forward osmosis: modeling and experiments. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2010, 44:5170-5176.
32. Hancock N.T., Cath T.Y. Solute coupled diffusion in osmotically driven membrane processes. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2009, 43:6769-6775.
33. Jin X., Tang C.Y., Gu Y., She Q., Qi S. Boric acid permeation in forward osmosis membrane processes: modeling, experiments, and implications. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2011, 45:2323-2330.
34. Tiraferri A., Yip N.Y., Phillip W.A., Schiffman J.D., Elimelech M. Relating performance of thin-film composite forward osmosis membranes to support layer formation and structure. J. Membr. Sci. 2011, 367:340-352.
35. Wang R., Shi L., Tang C.Y., Chou S., Qiu C., Fane A.G. Characterization of novel forward osmosis hollow fiber membranes. J. Membr. Sci. 2010, 355:158-167.
36. Zhu A., Christofides P.D., Cohen Y. Minimization of energy consumption for a two-pass membrane desalination: effect of energy recovery, membrane rejection and retentate recycling. J. Membr. Sci. 2009, 339:126-137.
37. McGinnis R.L., Elimelech M. Global challenges in energy and water supply: the promise of engineered osmosis. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2008, 42:8625-8629.
38. Birnhack L., Voutchkov N., Lahav O. Fundamental chemistry and engineering aspects of post-treatment processes for desalinated water-a review. Desalination 2011, 273:6-22.
39. Yip N.Y., Elimelech M. Performance limiting effects in power generation from salinity gradients by pressure retarded osmosis. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2011, 45:10273-10282.
40. Yip N.Y., Tiraferri A., Phillip W.A., Schiffman J.D., Hoover L.A., Kim Y.C., Elimelech M. Thin-film composite pressure retarded osmosis membranes for sustainable power generation from salinity gradients. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2011, 45:4360-4369.
41. Lobo V.M.M. Mutual diffusion coefficients in aqueous electrolyte solutions. Pure Appl. Chem. 1993, 65:2613-2640.
42. Hyung H., Kim J.-H. A mechanistic study on boron rejection by sea water reverse osmosis membranes. J. Membr. Sci. 2006, 286:269-278.