Osmotically assisted reverse osmosis for high salinity brine treatment

Bartholomew, Timothy V.; Mey, Laura; Arena, Jason T.; Siefert, Nicholas S.; Mauter, Meagan S.

doi:10.1016/j.desal.2017.04.012

Title: Osmotically assisted reverse osmosis for high salinity brine treatment

Journal Article · Sat Apr 29 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · Desalination

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.desal.2017.04.012· OSTI ID:1479651

Bartholomew, Timothy V. ^[1];

^[2]; Arena, Jason T. ^[3]; Siefert, Nicholas S. ^[3]; Mauter, Meagan S. ^[4]

Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA (United States). Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering; National Energy Technology Lab. (NETL), Pittsburgh, PA, (United States)
Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA (United States). Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
National Energy Technology Lab. (NETL), Pittsburgh, PA, (United States)
Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA (United States). Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Department of Engineering and Public Policy

Here, this work evaluates a novel osmotically assisted reverse osmosis (OARO) process for dewatering high salinity brines using readily available membranes and equipment. While traditional reverse osmosis processes are limited to treating brines with osmotic pressures below the membrane burst pressure, in OARO, the osmotic pressure difference across a membrane is reduced with a permeate side saline sweep. A series of OARO stages can be used to sequentially reduce the concentration of the feed until a traditional RO process can obtain fully desalinated water. This paper develops an OARO model to identify feasible operating conditions for this process and to estimate the water recovery and energy consumption across a range of brine feed concentrations. For a feed of 100–140 g/L sodium chloride, we estimate that the OARO process is capable of a 35–50% water recovery with an energy consumption of 6–19 kWh per m³ of product water. Finally, the results suggest that an OARO dewatering process improves upon the recovery of reverse osmosis for high salinity brines and has a comparable or lower energy consumption than mechanical vapor compression.

View Accepted Manuscript (DOE)

View Accepted Manuscript (Publisher)

Cite

Export

Save

Research Organization:: National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), Pittsburgh, PA, Morgantown, WV, and Albany, OR (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Fossil Energy (FE); USDOE Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM)

Grant/Contract Number:: CBET-1554117; CBET-1215845

OSTI ID:: 1479651

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1550527

Journal Information:: Desalination, Vol. 421, Issue C; ISSN 0011-9164

Publisher:: ElsevierCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Citation Metrics:

Cited by: 108 works

Citation information provided by
Web of Science

References (28)

Desalination and Reuse of High-Salinity Shale Gas Produced Water: Drivers, Technologies, and Future Directions Shaffer, Devin L.; Arias Chavez, Laura H.; Ben-Sasson, Moshe Environmental Science & Technology, Vol. 47, Issue 17 https://doi.org/10.1021/es401966e	journal	August 2013
Assessment of desalination technologies for treatment of a highly saline brine from a potential CO2 storage site Kaplan, Ruth; Mamrosh, Darryl; Salih, Hafiz H. Desalination, Vol. 404 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.desal.2016.11.018	journal	February 2017
Management and dewatering of brines extracted from geologic carbon storage sites Arena, Jason T.; Jain, Jinesh C.; Lopano, Christina L. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, Vol. 63 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijggc.2017.03.032	journal	August 2017
Developments in thermal desalination processes: Design, energy, and costing aspects Al-Sahali, Mohammad; Ettouney, Hisham Desalination, Vol. 214, Issue 1-3 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.desal.2006.08.020	journal	August 2007
Membrane distillation: A comprehensive review Alkhudhiri, Abdullah; Darwish, Naif; Hilal, Nidal Desalination, Vol. 287 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.desal.2011.08.027	journal	February 2012
Energy consumption in desalinating produced water from shale oil and gas extraction Thiel, Gregory P.; Tow, Emily W.; Banchik, Leonardo D. Desalination, Vol. 366 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.desal.2014.12.038	journal	June 2015
State-of-the-art of reverse osmosis desalination Fritzmann, C.; Löwenberg, J.; Wintgens, T. Desalination, Vol. 216, Issue 1-3 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.desal.2006.12.009	journal	October 2007
Forward osmosis: Principles, applications, and recent developments Cath, T.; Childress, A.; Elimelech, M. Journal of Membrane Science, Vol. 281, Issue 1-2 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memsci.2006.05.048	journal	September 2006
Effect of hydraulic pressure and membrane orientation on water flux and reverse solute flux in pressure assisted osmosis Oh, Yoontaek; Lee, Sangho; Elimelech, Menachem Journal of Membrane Science, Vol. 465 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memsci.2014.04.008	journal	September 2014
Pressure retarded osmosis: From the vision of Sidney Loeb to the first prototype installation — Review Achilli, Andrea; Childress, Amy E. Desalination, Vol. 261, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.desal.2010.06.017	journal	October 2010
The Future of Seawater Desalination: Energy, Technology, and the Environment Elimelech, M.; Phillip, W. A. Science, Vol. 333, Issue 6043 https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1200488	journal	August 2011
Membrane assisted crystallization using reverse osmosis: Influence of solubility characteristics on experimental application and energy saving potential Lakerveld, Richard; Kuhn, Jelan; Kramer, Herman J. M. Chemical Engineering Science, Vol. 65, Issue 9 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ces.2010.01.002	journal	May 2010
Effect of porous support fabric on osmosis through a Loeb-Sourirajan type asymmetric membrane Loeb, S. Journal of Membrane Science, Vol. 129, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0376-7388(96)00354-7	journal	July 1997
Influence of concentrative and dilutive internal concentration polarization on flux behavior in forward osmosis McCutcheon, Jeffrey R.; Elimelech, Menachem Journal of Membrane Science, Vol. 284, Issue 1-2 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memsci.2006.07.049	journal	November 2006
Selection of inorganic-based draw solutions for forward osmosis applications Achilli, Andrea; Cath, Tzahi Y.; Childress, Amy E. Journal of Membrane Science, Vol. 364, Issue 1-2 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memsci.2010.08.010	journal	November 2010
Isotonic Solutions. I. The Chemical Potential of Water in Aqueous Solutions of Sodium Chloride, Potassium Chloride, Sulfuric Acid, Sucrose, Urea and Glycerol at 25° ¹ Scatchard, George; Hamer, W. J.; Wood, S. E. Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 60, Issue 12 https://doi.org/10.1021/ja01279a066	journal	December 1938
Osmotic power production from salinity gradient resource by pressure retarded osmosis: Effects of operating conditions and reverse solute diffusion She, Qianhong; Jin, Xue; Tang, Chuyang Y. Journal of Membrane Science, Vol. 401-402 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memsci.2012.02.014	journal	May 2012
Colloidal fouling of reverse osmosis membranes Cohen, R. D.; Probstein, R. F. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, Vol. 114, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-9797(86)90252-3	journal	November 1986
Modeling concentration polarization in reverse osmosis processes Kim, Suhan; Hoek, Eric M. V. Desalination, Vol. 186, Issue 1-3 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.desal.2005.05.017	journal	December 2005
Desalination by ammonia–carbon dioxide forward osmosis: Influence of draw and feed solution concentrations on process performance McCutcheon, Jeffrey R.; McGinnis, Robert L.; Elimelech, Menachem Journal of Membrane Science, Vol. 278, Issue 1-2 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memsci.2005.10.048	journal	July 2006
Modified models to predict flux behavior in forward osmosis in consideration of external and internal concentration polarizations Tan, Chien Hsiang; Ng, How Yong Journal of Membrane Science, Vol. 324, Issue 1-2 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memsci.2008.07.020	journal	October 2008
Novel spacer design improves observed flux Schwinge, J.; Wiley, D. E.; Fane, A. G. Journal of Membrane Science, Vol. 229, Issue 1-2 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memsci.2003.09.015	journal	February 2004
Hydrodynamics of sinusoidal spacers for improved reverse osmosis performance Xie, Peng; Murdoch, Lawrence C.; Ladner, David A. Journal of Membrane Science, Vol. 453 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memsci.2013.10.068	journal	March 2014
The Merck Index: 12th edition 1996 Maynard, R. L. Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Vol. 54, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1136/oem.54.4.288	journal	April 1997
Relating performance of thin-film composite forward osmosis membranes to support layer formation and structure Tiraferri, Alberto; Yip, Ngai Yin; Phillip, William A. Journal of Membrane Science, Vol. 367, Issue 1-2 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memsci.2010.11.014	journal	February 2011
Impact of temperature on power density in closed-loop pressure retarded osmosis for grid storage Anastasio, Daniel D.; Arena, Jason T.; Cole, Emily A. Journal of Membrane Science, Vol. 479 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memsci.2014.12.046	journal	April 2015
Effects of Transmembrane Hydraulic Pressure on Performance of Forward Osmosis Membranes Coday, Bryan D.; Heil, Dean M.; Xu, Pei Environmental Science & Technology, Vol. 47, Issue 5 https://doi.org/10.1021/es304519p	journal	February 2013
Mechanical vapour compression to treat oil field produced water Koren, A.; Nadav, N. Desalination, Vol. 98, Issue 1-3 https://doi.org/10.1016/0011-9164(94)00130-8	journal	September 1994

Cited By (1)

Effect of Short-Term Contact with C1–C4 Monohydric Alcohols on the Water Permeance of MPD-TMC Thin-Film Composite Reverse Osmosis Membranes Idarraga-Mora, Jaime A.; Lemelin, Michael A.; Weinman, Steven T. Membranes, Vol. 9, Issue 8 https://doi.org/10.3390/membranes9080092	journal	July 2019

Similar Records

Comparative techno-economic assessment of osmotically-assisted reverse osmosis and batch-operated vacuum-air-gap membrane distillation for high-salinity water desalination

Journal Article · Fri Apr 01 00:00:00 EDT 2022 · Desalination · OSTI ID:1479651

Zhang, Zhuoran; Atia, A. A.; Andrés-Mañas, J. A.; +2 more

Cost Optimization of Osmotically Assisted Reverse Osmosis

Journal Article · Tue Sep 18 00:00:00 EDT 2018 · Environmental Science and Technology · OSTI ID:1479651

Bartholomew, Timothy V.; Siefert, Nicholas S.; Mauter, Meagan S.

Pathways for minimal and zero liquid discharge with enhanced reverse osmosis technologies: Module-scale modeling and techno-economic assessment

Journal Article · Wed Apr 07 00:00:00 EDT 2021 · Desalination · OSTI ID:1479651

Atia, Adam A.; Yip, Ngai Yin; Fthenakis, Vasilis

Related Subjects

42 ENGINEERING
37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

Title: Osmotically assisted reverse osmosis for high salinity brine treatment

Citation Formats

References (28)

Cited By (1)

Similar Records

Related Subjects