CFD modelling of reverse osmosis membrane flow and validation with experimental results

Alessio Alexiadis; D. E. Wiley; A. Vishnoi; R. H K Lee; D. F. Fletcher; J. Bao

doi:10.1016/j.desal.2007.02.014

CFD modelling of reverse osmosis membrane flow and validation with experimental results

Alessio Alexiadis, D. E. Wiley^*, A. Vishnoi, R. H K Lee, D. F. Fletcher, J. Bao

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Abstract

Recently, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models of flows in membrane channels have been proposed and validated against published simplified models available in the literature. In this paper, experimental and numerical analysis is performed for a reverse osmosis (RO) module and results compared in order to provide further validation of the model from a practical prospective. Our results show that, in order to improve the accuracy of the calculations at high pressure, a membrane permeability that varies with the operational pressure must be taken into account.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	242-250
Number of pages	9
Journal	Desalination
Volume	217
Issue number	1-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.desal.2007.02.014
Publication status	Published - 5 Nov 2007

Keywords

CFD
Modelling
Reverse osmosis

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Filtration and Separation

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