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Pretreatment for Brackish Water Reverse Osmosis of Desalination Plants by Dual-Media Filter

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Analytical chemistry

Abstract

By sieving the Amphistegina tests of average size of 1.2 mm and accumulated from different costs of Red and Mediterranean seas in Egypt and a definite calcite Ooids of mesh size from 0.5–3.0 mm that formed inside a semi–pilot of seawater–softening unit. Recently, we used the dual–media (DM) filter that consisting of Amphistegina tests and fabricated calcite Ooids in removing ionic iron from groundwater. Thereafter, for the first time we have used that recent filtration dual–media as pretreatment technique for brackish water reverse osmosis stage in desalination plants and raw brackish water samples are brought from Al–Qurayyat Governorate, Jouf, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Dual filtration media demonstrated an excellent feed water quality improvement producing filtrate of accepted quality to feeding brackish water reverse osmosis (BWRO) membranes at optimum operating conditions of temperature (40 ᵒC) and flow rate (20 l/min). In presence of polyaluminum chloride coagulant, the better silt density index (SDI) of produced filtrate (SDI <3), turbidity of less than 0.1 NTU, total organic carbon (TOC) reducing of higher value reached to 98.6% and the highest value noticed by DM filter in iron removal reached to 100 % in presence of injection of chlorine in the feed water tank.

DOI

10.21608/ejchem.2024.326137.10584

Keywords

Water treatment, brackish water, filtration, Calcite ooids, Amphistegina test, Dual-media filter

Authors

First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

Ayoub

MiddleName

Hosny Naggar

Affiliation

Department of Chemistry, College of Science, Jouf University, Sakaka, Aljouf 72341, Saudi Arabia

Email

ahayoub@ju.edu.sa

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Orcid

0000-0001-5492-6114

First Name

Al-Sayed

Last Name

Bakr

MiddleName

Aly

Affiliation

Department of Analysis and Evaluation, Egyptian Petroleum Research Institute (EPRI), Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt 11727

Email

als_water@yahoo.com

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Orcid

0000-0001-5268-8060

Volume

67

Article Issue

11

Related Issue

50157

Issue Date

2024-11-01

Receive Date

2024-10-05

Publish Date

2024-11-01

Page Start

641

Page End

647

Print ISSN

0449-2285

Online ISSN

2357-0245

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/article_391884.html

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391,884

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Original Article

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297

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Journal

Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Chemistry

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/

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Pretreatment for Brackish Water Reverse Osmosis of Desalination Plants by Dual-Media Filter

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Created At

30 Dec 2024