Title

NF performance at full and pilot scale

Authors

Authors

L. A. Mulford; J. S. Taylor; D. M. Nickerson;S. S. Chen

Comments

Authors: contact us about adding a copy of your work at STARS@ucf.edu

Abbreviated Journal Title

J. Am. Water Work Assoc.

Keywords

Engineering, Civil; Water Resources

Abstract

Productivity and water quality from the Roy W. Likens membrane facility in Palm Coast, Fla., were accurately simulated by three membrane pilot plants in a four-month field investigation using various sizes of a film membrane manufactured by the same company and operated under the same conditions. All plants used the same source water, groundwater that is moderately hard (330 mg/L as CaCO3) and highly organic (11 mg/L non-purgeable dissolved organic carbon, 336 trihalomethane formation potential [THMFP], 227 mu g/L haloacetic acid formation potential [HAAFP]). All pilot units were built and operated according to standards in the Information Collection Rule (ICR). The average finished water quality for all membrane plants was 0.4 mg/L total organic carbon as C, 35 mu g/L THMFP, and 28 HAAFP. For the full scale plant, membrane productivity over time than did a zero-order direct mass transfer model, although both models produced statistically significant results. These results demonstrated that full-scale plant performance could be accurately scaled up from single-element or multistage pilot plants as specified in the ICR protocol.

Journal Title

Journal American Water Works Association

Volume

91

Issue/Number

6

Publication Date

1-1-1999

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

64

Last Page

75

WOS Identifier

WOS:000081040600009

ISSN

0003-150X

Share

COinS