Reverse Osmosis Pilot A .
Reverse Osmosis Pilot
Description:
Important parameters for this process :
The important parameters for the membranous processes are :
The flow speed on the membrane in the recycling loop (where the salt solution is concentrated) ;
The pressure given by the pump at the input of the membrane ;
The permeability of the membrane.
The temperature.
The efficiency at 10 bars (16 bars) is only of 5% (15%) maxi, for this reason, we recycle the supply water which concentrate itself.
The pilot is powered either by the electric cabinet of the Tournesol module, either by the electric network, according to the low load threshold of the batteries.
At the end of the production, we will be able to analyse the energy consumed by the network and the energy consumed by the panels.
Teaching objectives
We will calculate the permeability of the membrane and we will verify its performances according to the following hydraulic and chemical parameters:
Energy Performances:
Consumption of energy
Speed control
Level control
Production cost solar/netwok
Process :
Pressure at the input of the mould.
Waste rate
Waste recycling flow
Concentration of NaCl
The filtrate flow for water initially loaded of 5g/l – 25 l/h at 10 bars.
Practical works time: 4 hours
Technical specifications
Spiral membrane cartridge
Stainless steel 304 vertical multistage centrifugal pump
Electronic speed driver
3 rods level detectors
Supply tank
Filtrate tank
A capacitive level probe with its controller operating the feed water solenoid valve
3 PVC flow meters
2 manometers
3 manometers
1 Conductivity meter with probe and digital display.
Control cabinet including pump control and safety protection, emergency stop botton conductivity meter transmitter, the speed driver, the level controller, the main switch.
All the piping are in PVC, the pilot is mounted on a stainless steel frame with aluminium nuts.