Wastewater Treatment Solutions | Nanofiltration Membranes - Genex Utility

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How can wastewater treatment can be improved?​

The wastewater treatment can be improved by adopting to latest water filtration technologies. Nanofiltration is one of the effective methods of improvement of wastewater treatment.

Nanofiltration is a separation process characterized by organic, thin-film composite membranes with a pore size range of 0.1 to 10nm. Unlike reverse osmosis (RO) membranes, which reject all solutes, NF membranes can operate at lower pressures and offer selective solute rejection based on both size and charge.
Nanofiltration membranes are defined as having a pore size in the order of nanometers (nm) (1×10−9 m). Due to its filtering property nanofiltration membranes are used in wastewater treatment Solution. As a comparison, the atomic radius of a sodium ion and a chlorine ion is about 0.97 nm (0.97×10−9 m) and 1.8 nm (1.8×10−9 m), respectively. This demonstrates that nanofiltration membranes are near the range to remove rather small ions.

How effective are water treatment plants?​

Membrane manufacturers do discuss ranges for constituent removal based on atomic mass. Most indicate that nanofiltration membranes remove compounds/ions with a molecular weight greater than 300–400 g/mol. It should be noted that this number represents the size for complete (or nearly so) removal.

 

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