Practical performance analysis of an industrial-scale ultrafiltration membrane water treatment plant

• Main Authors: Chew, C.M., Aroua, M.K., Hussain, Mohd Azlan, Wan Ismail, W.M.Z.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2015
• Subjects: T Technology (General); TP Chemical technology
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/13886/1/Practical_performance_analysis_of_an_industrial-scale_ultrafiltration.pdf; http://eprints.um.edu.my/13886/; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtice.2014.09.013

Common design and operational issues to evaluate the performance of an ultrafiltration (UF) membrane water treatment plant are highlighted with a case study on an industrial-scale drinking water treatment plant located in Malaysia. This treatment plant has been in operation since February 2013 using dead-end polyethersulfone UF membrane filtration system to produce up to 14 million litres a day of drinking water to a small township. Literature solutions are compared with the practised solutions and elucidated with the case study. Gaps between literature solutions which are mainly based on lab-scale research and industry practices are identified. Reducing this gap will have vast implication to improve the design and operation of industrial-scale UF treatment system. (C) 2014 Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.