Review of Pretreatment of Reverse Osmosis Seawater Desalination

Zinah  A. Alshrefy; Huda T. Hamad; Shahad Al-Najjar; Zainab T. Al-Sharify

doi:10.70516/w1bfpg35

Authors

Zinah A. Alshrefy Quality Assurance and university performance department, University presidency, Northern Technical University, Mosul, Iraq Author https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0884-9570
Huda T. Hamad Water recourses Engineering Department/College of Engineering/ Mustansiriyah University, Baghdad, Iraq Author https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7207-6459
Shahad Al-Najjar Department of Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering, Al-Nahrain University, Jadriah, Baghdad, Iraq Author https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5774-5914
Zainab T. Al-Sharify Environmental Engineering Department, Mustansiriyah University, College of Engineering, Baghdad, Iraq Author https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3870-3815

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.70516/w1bfpg35

Keywords:

Coagulation, Desalination, Low-pressure membrane, Pretreatment, Reverse osmosis

Abstract

Over the past decade, the age-old and peaceful method of membrane preprocessing has seen a markedly accelerated improvement in its usefulness for artificial speech naturalness. Profitable operation of the SWRO process requires a reliable pretreatment method as the main disadvantages are membrane fouling related to particles, organic, inorganic colloids material and organic growth. The older pre-treatment methods like active and particulate filtration are widely used in seawater desalination by RO techniques; there is a growing trend to use ultrafiltration/microfiltration as an alternative to older treatment technologies. Research highlights that both mass-based methods and UF/MF membrane pretreatment techniques offer distinct benefits and limitations. This evaluation shows that, given the excellent condition of the feed water, an appropriate integration of 1 or 2 pretreatment technologies can also be considered justified, as this can benefit from each individual pretreatment.

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