O efeito da remoção do gás carbônico na qualidade do permeado de um sistema de membranas de ultrafiltração/osmose inversa.

Abstract

Desalination is a widely used process in the world for the treatment of water from a variety of water sources, which requires treatment to become potable and thus promote water safety and life-support, although little used in the necessary proportion, to desalination of water in the Brazilian Northeast has become a highly requested technique due to its efficiency in water treatment. The objective of this research was to evaluate the permeate quality of a hybrid membrane system for desalination of brackish water with the removal of carbon dioxide by a cooling tower, evaluating the performance of the membrane separation process for water treatment through evaluation of the real data with the simulated ones for the RO permeate. Theoretical data are the results obtained from real analyzes performed in the waters of the present work, inserted in SOFWARE ROSA® 8.0.3 and the simulations were performed. In the present work the polymer membrane of Reverse Osmosis (BW304040) was used in the simulation and bench experiments. From the simulation it was possible to adjust the operating pressures to the following values: 6 bar 9 bar, 11bar, and 13 bar for surface water and 13 bar and 15 bar for well water. The salt rejection (% SR) was evaluated, obtaining values close to 98% for the permeate. It was studied by means of a cooling tower as a post-treatment, the removal of CO2 that had as effect, the decrease of the pH of the permeate. It was verified through analyzes that after the tower a mean partial removal of carbon dioxide of about 75% occurred.