by Alex Whitmore | Sep 28, 2021 | Water Treatment
To enjoy clean water, it must be treated first. Explore why chlorine dioxide should be used to treat water systems. Have you ever wondered how the water you drink becomes safe to consume? Turning on the faucet and being met with a clean stream of water involves a...
by Sedrik Newbern | Aug 25, 2021 | Academic, Water Treatment
There have been serious questions and apparent discrepancies in both laboratory and field work regarding whether chlorine dioxide is harmful to thin film composite RO membranes.[1] The presence of metals, specifically iron, as part of the fouling deposit found on RO...
by Sedrik Newbern | Aug 18, 2021 | Academic, Water Treatment
2003 Case History[i] A coal-fired power plant located in New Mexico supplied power to the southwestern power grid. Water from a nearby zero-discharge lake was utilized as makeup water. This biologically active lake water was also used for cooling and was moderately...
by Sedrik Newbern | Aug 12, 2021 | Academic, Water Treatment
PureLine continues its series on surveying chlorine dioxide and its effects on reverse osmosis (RO) membranes by looking at case studies of a seawater desalination facility, and chlorine dioxide’s effectiveness in cleaning fouled reverse osmosis membranes along with...
by Sedrik Newbern | Aug 3, 2021 | Academic, Water Treatment
If you haven’t read the first part of our series on Chlorine Dioxide and Reverse Osmosis (RO) membranes, read about biofilm and chlorine dioxide first! This post reviews literature prior to 1990 and up through 2010, as there have been a few reports concerning the...
by Sedrik Newbern | Jul 27, 2021 | Water Treatment
Declining water supplies around the country have forced cities to look at recycled municipal wastewater as a major source of water for certain commercial – institutional and light industrial applications. The City of San Antonio, Texas implemented a program of...
