Energy consumption of water recovery from wastewater in a submerged forward osmosis system using commercial liquid fertilizer as a draw solute
dc.contributor.author | Xiang, Xiaoxue | en |
dc.contributor.author | Zou, Shiqiang | en |
dc.contributor.author | He, Zhen | en |
dc.contributor.department | Civil and Environmental Engineering | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-11-29T16:05:36Z | en |
dc.date.available | 2016-11-29T16:05:36Z | en |
dc.date.issued | 2017-03-01 | en |
dc.description.abstract | Using liquid fertilizer as a draw solute in forward osmosis (FO) to extract high-quality water from wastewater is of strong interest because it eliminates the need for regenerating draw solute, thereby requiring less energy input to system operation. However, energy consumption of such an approach has not been evaluated before. Herein, a submerged FO system with all-purpose liquid fertilizer as a draw solute was studied for energy consumption of water recovery from either deionized (DI) water or domestic wastewater. The results showed that a higher draw concentration led to higher water flux and lower energy consumption, for example 0.25 ± 0.08 kW h m<sup>-3</sup> with 100% draw concentration, but reverse salt flux (RSF) was also more serious. Decreasing the recirculation flow rate from 100 to 25 mL min<sup>-1</sup> had a minor effect on water flux, but significantly reduced energy consumption from 1.30 ± 0.28 to 0.09 ± 0.02 kW h m<sup>-3</sup> . When extracting water from the secondary effluent, the FO system exhibited comparable performance of water flux and energy consumption to that of the DI water. However, the primary effluent resulted in obvious fouling of the FO membrane and higher energy consumption than that of the secondary effluent/DI water. This study has provided important implications to proper evaluation of energy consumption by the FO system using liquid fertilizer or other non-regenerating draw solutes. | en |
dc.description.notes | publisher: Elsevier articletitle: Energy consumption of water recovery from wastewater in a submerged forward osmosis system using commercial liquid fertilizer as a draw solute journaltitle: Separation and Purification Technology articlelink: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.seppur.2016.10.052 content_type: article copyright: © 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. | en |
dc.description.notes | Accepted (Publication status) | en |
dc.format.extent | 432 - 438 page(s) | en |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seppur.2016.10.052 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 1383-5866 | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/73528 | en |
dc.identifier.volume | 174 | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.rights | In Copyright | en |
dc.rights.uri | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | en |
dc.title | Energy consumption of water recovery from wastewater in a submerged forward osmosis system using commercial liquid fertilizer as a draw solute | en |
dc.title.serial | Separation and Purification Technology | en |
dc.type | Article - Refereed | en |
dc.type.dcmitype | Text | en |
pubs.organisational-group | /Virginia Tech | en |
pubs.organisational-group | /Virginia Tech/All T&R Faculty | en |
pubs.organisational-group | /Virginia Tech/Engineering | en |
pubs.organisational-group | /Virginia Tech/Engineering/Civil & Environmental Engineering | en |
pubs.organisational-group | /Virginia Tech/Engineering/COE T&R Faculty | en |
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