Assessment of Water Quality and Power Consumption in Small Size Reverse Osmosis Water Treatment Units

Khan Md. Rabbani Rasha; Quazi Hamidul Bari

Assessment of Water Quality and Power Consumption in Small Size Reverse Osmosis Water Treatment Units

Khan Md. Rabbani Rasha * §

Contact

Quazi Hamidul Bari

Contact

§ Khulna University of Engineering and Technology

Assessment of Water Quality and Power Consumption in Small Size Reverse Osmosis Water Treatment Units

Article Fingerprint

ReserarchID

RE5JELT

Assessment of Water Quality and Power Consumption in Small Size Reverse Osmosis Water Treatment Units Banner

AI TAKEAWAY

Connecting with the Eternal Ground

Abstract

This study is based on comparative study of different water quality parameters such as pH, turbidity, electrical conductivity (EC), chloride, total solids (TS), total dissolved solids (TDS), hardness, color, dissolved oxygen (DO), total coliform (TC), fecal coliform (FC) and total chlorine for both raw water and reverse osmosis treated water from four different locations. Most of the water quality parameters tested for raw water was above the permissible limit according to World Health Organization (WHO) with the exception of turbidity and total chlorine. All the contaminants had a removal efficiency more than 90% except hardness (57.71%) and turbidity (22.50%) for treated water. The water quality index (WQI) shows that raw water from all four locations belongs to the poor water category and treated water belongs to the excellent water category. The highest monthly cost for the electricity being monitored is 38.1 Tk. ($0.45). The maximum water production was noticed for the month of october at 1021 liters and the per cubic meter water production cost for RO water treatment system was at 27 Tk. ($0.32).

References

22 Cites in Article

Reference Format

Lilian Malaeb,George Ayoub (2011). Reverse osmosis technology for water treatment: State of the art review.
T Tran,B Bolto,S Gray,M Hoang,E Ostarcevic (2007). An autopsy study of a fouled reverse osmosis membrane element used in a brackish water treatment plant.
Lauren Greenlee,Desmond Lawler,Benny Freeman,Benoit Marrot,Philippe Moulin (2009). Reverse osmosis desalination: Water sources, technology, and today's challenges.
Iikpoemugh Imiete,Nadezda Viacheslovovna Alekseeva (2018). Reverse osmosis purification: A case study of the Niger Delta region.
Hyun-Suk Oh,Florentin Constancias,Chitrakala Ramasamy,Pei Tang,Mon Yee,Anthony Fane,Diane Mcdougald,Scott Rice (2018). Biofouling control in reverse osmosis by nitric oxide treatment and its impact on the bacterial community.
David Warsinger,Karan Mistry,Kishor Nayar,Hyung Chung,John Lienhard (2015). Entropy Generation of Desalination Powered by Variable Temperature Waste Heat.
Gurudeo Tularam,Mahbub Ilahee (2007). Environmental concerns of desalinating seawater using reverse osmosis.
A Bódalo-Santoyo,J Gómez-Carrasco,E Gómez-Gómez,F Máximo-Martín,A Hidalgo-Montesinos (2003). Application of reverse osmosis to reduce pollutants present in industrial wastewater.
M Mohsen-Nia,P Montazeri,H Modarress (2007). Removal of Cu2+ and Ni2+ from wastewater with a chelating agent and reverse osmosis processes.
Mingheng Li (2011). Reducing specific energy consumption in Reverse Osmosis (RO) water desalination: An analysis from first principles.
Cui Liu,Ken Rainwater,Lianfa Song (2011). Energy analysis and efficiency assessment of reverse osmosis desalination process.
R Zhao,S Porada,P Biesheuvel,A Van Der Wal (2013). Energy consumption in membrane capacitive deionization for different water recoveries and flow rates, and comparison with reverse osmosis.
Robert Ning (2002). Arsenic removal by reverse osmosis.
Paul Westerhoff,Hye Moon,Daisuke Minakata,John Crittenden (2009). Oxidation of organics in retentates from reverse osmosis wastewater reuse facilities.
F Muñoz,L Becerril (2014). Low-capacity Reverse Osmosis Solar Desalination Plant.
A Pérez-González,A Urtiaga,R Ibáñez,I Ortiz (2012). State of the art and review on the treatment technologies of water reverse osmosis concentrates.
Essam Mohamed,G Papadakis,E Mathioulakis,V Belessiotis (2005). The effect of hydraulic energy recovery in a small sea water reverse osmosis desalination system; experimental and economical evaluation.
A Abushaban,S Salinas-Rodriguez,M Mangal,S Mondal,S Goueli,A Knezev,J Vrouwenvelder,J Schippers,M Kennedy (2019). ATP measurement in seawater reverse osmosis systems: Eliminating seawater matrix effects using a filtrationbased method.
Ramin Nabizadeh,Maryam Valadi Amin,Mahmood Alimohammadi,Kazem Naddafi,Amir Mahvi,Samira Yousefzadeh (2013). Development of innovative computer software to facilitate the setup and computation of water quality index.
M Vasanthavigar,K Srinivasamoorthy,K Vijayaragavan,R Rajiv Ganthi,S Chidambaram,P Anandhan,R Manivannan,S Vasudevan (2010). Application of water quality index for groundwater quality assessment: Thirumanimuttar sub-basin, Tamilnadu, India.
Joseph Cotruvo (2017). 2017 WHO Guidelines for Drinking Water Quality: First Addendum to the Fourth Edition.
Vinod Kothari,Suman Vij,Suneshkumar Sharma,Neha Gupta (2021). Correlation of various water quality parameters and water quality index of districts of Uttarakhand.

Download References

Funding

No external funding was declared for this work.

Conflict of Interest

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Ethical Approval

No ethics committee approval was required for this article type.

Data Availability

Not applicable for this article.

How to Cite This Article

Khan Rasha, Quazi Bari. 2021. "Assessment of Water Quality and Power Consumption in Small Size Reverse Osmosis Water Treatment Units". Global Journal of Research in Engineering, Global Journal of Research in Engineering - C: Chemical Engineering GJRE-C Volume 21 (GJRE Volume 21 Issue C1).

More Citation Formats

Select Citation Style:

Download Citation

GJRE Volume 21 Issue C1

Explore Journals Explore Volume Read This Issue

Journal Specifications

Crossref Journal DOI 10.17406/gjre

Print ISSN 0975-5861

e-ISSN 2249-4596

Keywords

Not Found

Classification

GJRE-C Classification FOR Code: 090499

Submission ReceivedDecember 9, 2020
Peer Review Double Blind
Handling Editor
Accepted January 3, 2021
Published January 15, 2021

Version of record

v1.2

Issue date

February 23, 2021

Language

English

Experiance in AR

Explore published articles in an immersive Augmented Reality environment. Our platform converts research papers into interactive 3D books, allowing readers to view and interact with content using AR and VR compatible devices.

View in VR

Read in 3D

Your published article is automatically converted into a realistic 3D book. Flip through pages and read research papers in a more engaging and interactive format.

View in 3D

Article Matrices

Total Views: 824

Total Downloads: 63

All Trends