Research Abstracts

In the present work, one type of reverse osmosis desalination plant with 2.5 t/d product was introduced. An experimental study was carried out, the result of experiment was analyzed. The calculation data using ROSA software developed by Dow Chemical company was given. By regression analysis of the e

This paper presents the status of water desalination in Kuwait, and the limitations of current equipment in satisfying the increased water demand. It also gives the reasons for the water problem, and presents a more efficient and rapidly deployable solution for power and desalinated production. Kuwa

A combination of adsorption and nanofiltration (NF) was adopted for the treatment of a textile dyehouse effluent containing a mixture of two reactive dyes. The effluent stream was first treated in a batch adsorption process with sawdust as an adsorbent to reduce the dye concentration of the effluent

Cross-flow microfiltration alone or associated with ultrafiltration or coagulation was conducted to investigate the efficiency of this process in the reducing of chemical oxygen demand (COD) and proteins (Npr) in the waste waters produced from cuttlefish conditioning and freezing process. The study

A purification process of making use of electret technology for efficient but cost effective deionization was discussed in this paper. Douglas MacGregor claimed that PTFE electret works as a means of ions separation for desalination due to the polarization of an electrolyte and ions migration under

This study explains the role of coagulation in membrane filtration of wastewater for reuse. For this purpose, a coagulation–ultrafiltration (UF) membrane system was used to treat secondary effluent from a nearby wastewater treatment plant using a rotating biological contactor. The study proceeded wi

The filtration performances of submerged membrane bioreactors (SMBR) with and without the addition of powdered activated carbon (PAC) were investigated respectively under the same feed and operation conditions. A series of experiments were conducted to analyze near-critical flux, effect of air-scour

This paper presents a newly designed simple solar still: a vertical multiple-effect diffusion-type solar still consisting of a flat-plate mirror, a number of vertical parallel partitions in contact with saline-soaked wicks with narrow air gaps between partitions, and casters for azimuth tracking by

Concentration and purification of lignosulphonates (LS) present in spent sulfite liquor (SSL) obtained from the paper industry were carried out through ultrafiltration (UF). The salts of lignosulphonic acid, a product of acid hydrolysis of lignin, are a major component of technical LS. In respect of