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Production of Water for Injection by Membrane Process

  • Murakami, Daikichiro
    • Proceedings of the Membrane Society of Korea Conference
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    • 1996.06a
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    • pp.177-189
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    • 1996
  • Raverase osmosis or ultrafiltration systems have generally been regarded as hard to validate about WFI production. Though the Japanese and US Pharmacopoeias have allowed distillation and RO to be applied to WFI production process, only water stills, especially multiple effects have practically been employed for parenteral water production. On the other hand, the latest analysis has shown that even distillate contains such volatile organic matters as trihalomethanes and traces of heavy metals at a little higher concentration than supposed. The JP requires TOC to be monitored in WFI process based on RO or UF systems to control the concentration below 300ppb, but very few monographs or papers have so far been published about the concentrations of organic volatile matters in distillate. (See table 1-1) Therefore, this paper proposes a new applicable WFI systems based on the result of purified water analysis with some membranes used in the process. A well combined membrane system with other units could be expected to provide less amount of impurities in membrane-treated water than in distillate.

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Comparisons of Reverse Osmosis and Pervaporation Membrane Processes. II. Experimental Interpretations. (역삼투와 투과 증발막 공정의 비교. II. 실험적 해석)

  • Rhim, Ji-Won;Bae, Seong-Youl;Kimura, Shoji;H
    • Membrane Journal
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.35-39
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    • 1993
  • Reverse osmosis(RO) and pervaporation(PV) membrane separation proceaes were compared with each other experimentally for the system of water-ethanol mixtures by using nylon 4 blended membranes. The separation effciencies of PV were better than those of RO as expected in previous paper covering the theoretical comparisons of both processes, however tbe permeabilities data showed erraerie results due to the membrane imperfections.

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MEMBRANE PROCESSES IN ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY

  • Blume, I.;Smolders, C.A.
    • Membrane Journal
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.1-20
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    • 1992
  • Classical membrane processes like microfiltration (MF), ultrafiltration (UF) and reverse osmosis (RO) are being applied in the last years more frequently in environmental and effluent process problems. Newer technologies and developments like pervaporation (PV) and gas sepaxation (GS) recently found commercial applications in the treatment of waste waters and gas streams. The incentive here is either the clean-up from organic components to comply with federal emission regulations or the recovery of the organics for economical reasons. Processes still in their development stage are combinations of chemical reactions with membrane processes to separate and treat $SO_x$ and $NO_x$ laden waste gas streams in the clean-up of stack-gases. In this paper we will first give a short overview of the more recent developments in MF, UF and RO. This is followed by a closer look on newer technologies applied in environmental problems. The applications looked at are the recovery of organic components from solvent laden gas streams and the separation of organic volatiles from aqueous waste waters via pervaporation. Technical solutions, the advantages and disadvantages of the processes and. where possible, cost estimations will be presented.

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Effect of Pretreated Seawater Quality on SDI in SWRO Desalination Process (SWRO 해수담수화 공정에서 전처리된 수질조건이 SDI에 미치는 영향)

  • Son, Dong-Min;Kang, Lim-Seok
    • Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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    • v.35 no.3
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    • pp.200-205
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    • 2013
  • Pretreatment process is the critical step of RO (Reverse Osmosis) membrane desalination plant in order to prevent RO membrane fouling. The pretreatment as a key component of RO process must be designed to produce a constant and high quality RO feedwater which has low silt density index (SDI). This experiment was conducted to assess parameters affecting SDI value, such as pH, seawater turbidity, temperature, and coagulant dose. The experimental results indicated that the source seawater turbidity did cause little effects on SDI values of filtered water. The 0.45 um hydrophilic membrane was more appropriate than the hydrophobic membrane for measuring SDI. The SDI value was increased with decreasing pH under the condition of below pH 7.0. In addition, the water temperature significantly affected the SDI values, showing higher SDI value with lower water temperature.

Temperature Effect in the process of DAF as pretreatment of SWRO (해수담수화 전처리로서 DAF공정에서 고온의 해수에 대한 영향 특성)

  • Park, Hyunjin;Dockko, Seok
    • Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater
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    • v.26 no.6
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    • pp.807-813
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    • 2012
  • Flocculation and flotation are used as pretreatment steps prior to the reverse osmosis (RO) process. During seawater treatment, high temperature can change the water chemistry of seawater during the process of coagulation. It also affects bubble volume concentration (BVC) and bubble characteristics. Coagulants such as alum and ferric salts at $40^{\circ}C$ can also change flux rates in the seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) process. In this study, the bubble characteristics in dissolved air flotation (DAF), used as a SWRO pretreatment process, were studied in synthetic seawater at $20^{\circ}C$ and $40^{\circ}C$. The flux of an RO membrane was monitored after dosing the synthetic seawater with coagulants at different temperatures. Results showed that BVC increases as the operating pressure increases and as the salt concentration decreases. The bubble size released at $40^{\circ}C$ is far smaller than that at $20^{\circ}C$The addition of a ferric salt is effective for turbidity removal in synthetic seawater at $20^{\circ}C$; it is more effective than alum. When synthetic seawater was dosed with a ferric salt, the RO membrane flux increased by 27 % at $40^{\circ}C$.