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ReFlex™ Reverse Osmosis Closed Circuit Desalination with
Enhanced Recovery
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ReFlex™ Reverse Osmosis Closed Circuit Desalination is an Innovative Solution to Low Recovery Rates & the High Operating and Capital Costs of Conventional RO Systems.
Increase RO Recovery Rates as much as 95% and Achieve
Exceptional Payback in Industrial Applications.
APPLICATIONS
- Surface waters with variable turbidity
- Ground waters with high fouling
tendencies
REFLEX™ RO utilizing CCD (Closed Circuit Desalination)
is a leading edge innovative solution to
low recovery rates and high operating and capital
costs of the outdated conventional RO systems.
A REFLEX™ RO system is a reverse osmosis system comprised of off-the-shelf equipment including membranes which features Desalitech's advanced and proprietary process design and engineering.
As an authorized OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) for the Desalitech system, eNPure's water treatment experts can design and install a custom REFLEX™ RO system to meet our client's specific needs with a guaranteed maximum recovery rate.
QUICK PAYBACK, GENERALLY
BETWEEN 18 TO 36 MONTHS
REDUCED MEMBRANE REPLACEMENT COSTS.
REFLEX RO TYPICALLY REQUIRES 20% FEWER
MEMBRANES FOR A GIVEN FEED FLOW AND WATER
CHEMISTRY THAN CONVENTIONAL RO
UP TO 75% LESS BRINE WASTE
REDUCED FEED WATER REQUIREMENT FOR A GIVEN
PERMEATE FLOW, RESULTING IN REDUCED CAPITAL
AND OPERATING EXPENDITURES FOR PRE-TREATMENT
INCREASED UPTIME WITH LONGER RUNS BETWEEN
MEMBRANE CLEANINGS, REDUCING OPERATING
COSTS AND EXTENDS MEMBRANE LIFE
DECREASED POWER CONSUMPTION
BY UP TO 35%
EXCELLENT TURN DOWN CAPABILITY OF
UP TO 50%.
Enpure's water treatment experts can retrofit your a conventional RO System and save you operating and capital expenses utilizing advanced and proprietary process design & engineering.
Obtain recovery rates as high as 95% for a given water chemistry, for industrial applications:
A REFLEX™ RO system combines media filtration with reverse osmosis to achieve recovery rates up to 95%. Like conventional RO, ReFlex RO uses crossflow but it uses internal circulation to provide higher better distributed crossflow which removes dissolved species from the membranes. Like media filtration the feed flow equals the permeate flow and the concentrate is purged periodically. ReFlex RO works in a batch wise fashion in two modes, closed circulation desalination and plug flow desalination. When in closed circuit desalination, the feed water flow equals the permeate flow. While brine is circulated in a closed loop to provide cross flow, dissolved salts accumulate in the system volume. As the salt concentration gradually increases, the pump pressure automatically increases to give a constant permeate flow. When the desired recovery rate is achieved a brine valve opens to release the concentrate and the fresh feed water pushes it out with plug flow while flushing the membrane surfaces. When the concentrate is fully rejected the brine valve closes and a new cycle begins again.
Conventional RO typically achieves up to 75%
recovery rates and requires 3-4 stages to get
recovery rates higher than 85%. REFLEX™ RO systems achieve recovery by
recirculation, not with multiple
membrane elements and stages
in series, and can therefore
reach any desired recovery
up to 95%. Over 98% has been
demonstrated, limited only by the scaling characteristics
of the pretreated feed water. Re-
FlexTM RO uses shorter membrane arrays than
those in conventional systems, which eliminates
low flux tail elements and minimizes lead element
flux and can accommodate a higher average
flux minimizing scaling. High recovery in a
single stage is a novel capability of REFLEX™ RO
that lowers cost and makes design and operation
simple. REFLEX™ RO also avoids scaling that
occurs in high recovery conventional RO systems
by flushing membranes frequently with feed water
during the plug flow mode part of the cycle.
In addition, the short introduction time the
membranes are exposed to high salinity as the
salt concentration gradually increases, disrupts
and greatly reduces scaling and fouling. Since
the cycle time or time the membranes are exposed
to the gradually increasing brine, is shorter
that the time it takes for scale to precipitate
and build up, frequent brine rejection can stop
and even reverse precipitation. All of these features
enables REFLEX™ RO to achieve up to 95%
recovery even from difficult source waters.
Applications:
- New Systems
- Retrofit to existing RO systems
- RO Pretreatment of Softened Feedwater
- RO Pretreatment of Demineralized Water