Silica and silicate precipitation as limiting factors in high-recovery reverse osmosis operations

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 423-424, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-10

  Salvador Cob, S ^a,b,c   Beaupin, C ^a   Hofs, B ^a   Nederlof, M M ^a   Harmsen, D J H ^a   Cornelissen, E R ^a   Zwijnenburg, A ^b   Genceli Guner F E ^c   Witkamp, G J ^c  

^a KWR WATERCYCLE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE FOR SUSTAINABLE WATER TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Colloidal fouling; Concentrate; Membrane fouling; Silica scaling; Zero liquid discharge

Indexed keywords

CAKE LAYER; CATION EXCHANGES; COLLOIDAL FOULING; CONCENTRATE; EDX ANALYSIS; FEED WATER; FOULING DEPOSIT; FOULING LAYERS; IRON HYDROXIDES; MEMBRANE SURFACE; PILOT PLANT EXPERIMENTS; PRE-TREATMENT; RO MEMBRANE; SEM-EDX; SILICA SCALING; TAP WATER; WATER RECOVERY; ZERO LIQUID DISCHARGES;

ALUMINOSILICATES; EXPERIMENTS; IRON OXIDES; MEMBRANE FOULING; PILOT PLANTS; RECOVERY; REVERSE OSMOSIS;

SILICA;

ALUMINOSILICATE CALCIUM; ALUMINUM; BARIUM ION; CALCIUM ION; FERRIC HYDROXIDE; IRON; IRON OXIDE; MAGNESIUM ION; OXYGEN; SILICATE; SILICON; SILICON DIOXIDE; TAP WATER;

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BIOFOULING; CALCULATION; CATION EXCHANGE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; NANOFILTRATION; NONHUMAN; PHREEQC CALCULATION; PLANT; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE OSMOSIS; ROENTGEN SPECTROSCOPY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PROPERTY; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84867743932     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: 18733123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2012.07.016     Document Type: Article

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