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Preventing Chemical Damage in Membrane Systems: Best Practices for Safe Operation

Membrane systems, such as Reverse Osmosis (RO), Ultrafiltration (UF), and Nanofiltration (NF), are essential in water treatment, ensuring the delivery of clean and safe water. However, these systems can be vulnerable to chemical damage, which can significantly affect their performance and longevity. Proper management of chemical dosages and adopting best practices for safe operation can … Read more

Preventing Chemical Damage in Membrane Systems: Best Practices for Safe Operation

Membrane systems, such as Reverse Osmosis (RO), Ultrafiltration (UF), and Nanofiltration (NF), are essential in water treatment, ensuring the delivery of clean and safe water. However, these systems can be vulnerable to chemical damage, significantly affecting their performance and longevity. Proper management of chemical dosages and adopting best practices for safe operation can prevent chemical … Read more

Erosion in RO Membranes: Causes, Symptoms, and Solutions

Reverse Osmosis (RO) membranes are crucial in water purification systems, ensuring the production of high-purity water essential across various industries. However, these membranes are prone to erosion, a form of degradation that can significantly impair their performance and shorten their lifespan.  Causes of Membrane Erosion Erosion in RO membranes can stem from several factors: 1. … Read more

Silica A Major Root Cause Of RO Membrane Damage

Physical damages in membrane is a common phenomenon. The physical damage could be such as increasing salt passage, change in flux and so on. With the good experience and our study in membrane autopsy, we found physical damage and irreversible damage to the membrane caused by the crystallized minerals majorly silica where colloidal silica plays … Read more

Dynamic Efficacy Testing For Antiscalant

Antiscalant’s dynamic efficacy testing is an emerging testing which help customers to understand the exact performance of their anti-scalent product and thereby take necessary actions to improve formulations if necessary.Fortunately, at VIPANAN, due to our vast industrial experience, has developed a specialization in performing Antiscalant’s efficacy testing.With new perspective, introduced by VIPANAN, Testing of antiscalant helps … Read more

Silica… More or less, It will mess !

Extensive studies of membrane autopsies shows the physical damage of membrane such as increasing salt passage, change in flux and so on . After studying innumerable membranes we found silica plays vital role in most of the physical and irreversible damage of the membrane among the crystallized minerals. In such cases, the foulant composition contain … Read more

Complexities in simple raw water treatment!

Using Raw water in industry is an advantage, however it has its own challenges and difficulties too. Treating raw water is a complex process, though it seems to be a simple process prima-facie. If, due consideration to seasonal deviation in water quality, understanding and foreseen the errors in pre-treatment system, if not given, then membrane … Read more

Unique and silent communication with membranes

Membrane autopsy is defined as, ‘Excellent tool or technique to understand and diagnose the problem related to fouling, scaling, salt passage flow, flux and pressure difference across the sides.’ However, with our vast experience in such autopsies we understood that Autopsy technique has it’s meaning, way beyond the above-mentioned definition. It is actually a silent … Read more

Glue formation in Reverse Osmosis Process

CETP (common Effluent Treatment Plant) located in one of the well known textile industry zone, has RO Membrane system for treated water recycling. In, comparatively, shorter span of two years, management has to replace all the membranes forcefully due to deterioration of product quality, quantity and rise in unscheduled cleaning frequency. Deterioration of product quantity … Read more

Erosion of Membrane

One of the India’s leading power generation company used to rely more on traditional water treatment tools for boiler feed water treatment. So, system and setup was developed in accordance to that. The company’s power generation setup in South India had tried reverse osmosis + EDI treatment on boiler feed water for the first time. … Read more