The use of brackish water reverse osmosis membranes are utilitized to treat challenging waters produced in the phosphate manufacturing process. The wastewater treatment process must take care to address high membrane scaling and fouling potentials. The use of reverse osmosis is deem to have lower capital and operating costs as compared to conventi...

This presentation discusses fiber breakage in membrane filtration modules and the various methods of determining integrity. Discussed are bypass flow hydraulic modeling, the use of pressure decay testing and the Kenosha cut fiber study to model system integrity....