Reverse Osmosis

Reverse Osmosis is a technology with various applications of tremendous interest; among those applications, desalination of water is critical for many regions in the world. Reverse Osmosis application requires understanding of a plethora of scientific and technical principles which are presented in detail in this scientific seminar.

 

 

 

Objectives:

By the end of the course, participants should have:

ü  An overview of the types of principles of osmosis

ü  Knowledge of most important processes and devices involved

ü  Understanding of transportation phenomena

ü  Understanding of how to identify problematic processes / devices

ü  Understanding of physical and chemical processes involved

ü  Knowledge of potential applications of RO

ü  Understanding of the effect of various contents of salty water in the reverse osmosis process

ü  Knowledge of organic, inorganic, microbes, bacteria, suspended solids and other chemical content in water

ü  Understanding of advantages and shortcomings of osmosis and reverse osmosis processes

ü  Knowledge of all recent advances and breakthroughs

ü  Understanding of Membrane technology

ü  Knowledge of most important membrane types

ü  Knowledge of water quality principles

ü  Understanding of Reverse Osmosis engineering

Contents:

ü  Reverse Osmosis principles

ü  Osmosis, Reverse Osmosis, dead end filtration and cross flow filtration

ü  System flow rating

ü  Recovery and Rejection

ü  Concentration polarization

ü  Fouling

ü  Scaling

ü  Silt Density Index, Modified Fouling Index, Langelier Saturation Index

ü  Transport models

ü  Membrane technology

ü  Basic Flow patterns [Arrays, recycle, double pass, Multiple Trains]

ü  Reverse Osmosis Skids

ü  Water quality science and principles

ü  Mechanical Pretreatment

ü  Chemical Pretreatment

ü  Sequencing of pretreatment technologies

ü  Membrane bio fouling and disinfection approaches

ü  Design considerations

ü  On line and off line operations

ü  Performance degradation

ü  System Engineering

ü  Trouble shooting

ü  Recent breakthroughs and advances

ü  Summary, Conclusions and analysis of near future achievements

Who should attend?

ü  Engineers, workers, research scientists

ü  Executives, managers and directors of desalination units

ü  Investors in desalination units