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TDS high / delta p and productivity are OK 1
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Normally, cleaning, if properly done, even frequently, should not degrade the membrane salt rejection. I would encourage you to check on your procedure. It must be adapted to the nature of foulants. Also are you doing some normalization to follow the performance reduction of your unit to decide when to clean ?
There exist some specialty chemicals to enhance membrane rejection, check with water conditonning chemicals supppliers.
Normally, cleaning, if properly done, even frequently, should not degrade the membrane salt rejection. I would encourage you to check on your procedure. It must be adapted to the nature of foulants. Also are you doing some normalization to follow the performance reduction of your unit to decide when to clean ?
There exist some specialty chemicals to enhance membrane rejection, check with water conditonning chemicals supppliers.
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Hi wwtp2014
Check membrane manufacturers sites like dow or hydranautics. They provide free spreadsheets to do this.
Delta P alone is not necessarily an accurate way to quantify fouling (even if generally speaking its upward variation indicates that something is wrong.)
The problem is that there are other factors at play. For instance temperature will play an important role due to viscosity variations. Salinity also has an influence.
Flow normalization enables you to compare your actual operating conditions to a reference (usually the starting conditions of the unit or the last time you cleaned) while removing the "seasonal" interference. That way you can have a clear view of the evolution of the performance of your unit vs time and can anticipate on the decision to clean.
Check membrane manufacturers sites like dow or hydranautics. They provide free spreadsheets to do this.
Delta P alone is not necessarily an accurate way to quantify fouling (even if generally speaking its upward variation indicates that something is wrong.)
The problem is that there are other factors at play. For instance temperature will play an important role due to viscosity variations. Salinity also has an influence.
Flow normalization enables you to compare your actual operating conditions to a reference (usually the starting conditions of the unit or the last time you cleaned) while removing the "seasonal" interference. That way you can have a clear view of the evolution of the performance of your unit vs time and can anticipate on the decision to clean.
Your membranes may be oxidized as Outlet TDS is more but dP or flow is remain same.
It is advisable to do probing test to check whether all membranes were damaged or not
Krunal Bhosale
All about Water and Wastewater Treatment
It is advisable to do probing test to check whether all membranes were damaged or not
Krunal Bhosale
All about Water and Wastewater Treatment
It is true that the symptoms can lead to think about membrane oxidation, so you can do a fujiwara test to check for membrane oxidation. There are some chemical treatments to try to get some rejection back, mainly based on Tannin molecule (from memory). I have never tried them so I cannot comment on their efficiency.
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@Laefranz
For Fujiwara test check for instance
As for rejection enhancer, I think that Kurita (ex BKGiulini) used to have some specialty for that. It should be some tannin containing formulation that "coats" or adsorbs on the membrane surface.
For Fujiwara test check for instance
As for rejection enhancer, I think that Kurita (ex BKGiulini) used to have some specialty for that. It should be some tannin containing formulation that "coats" or adsorbs on the membrane surface.
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