EMSS 2010 Proceeding

Validation of a reverse osmosis dynamic simulator

Authors:   Luis Palacin, Fernando Tadeo, Johanna Salazar, Cesar de Prada

Abstract

Reverse Osmosis (RO) is the most common technique to produce drinkable water in arid and semi arid regions, from brackish and sea water. However, these plants are usually not optimally designed and operated, because only a short number of constant operation points is considered and not a changeable control strategy. Dynamic tools of design and simulation of RO plants will help to improve the design and operation of this kind of desalination plants. In order to do this, a new dynamic simulation library of RO plants was previously presented and a hydraulic validation shown elsewhere. Now, the present paper deals with the chemical validation of that library, using experimental data from a real RO plant.

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