Padre Dam Municipal Water District is considering two technologies to achieve a high recovery with reverse osmosis for its upcoming advanced water purification facility. Pilot testing from 2016-2017 at Padre Dam?s demonstration facility has shown that 95% recovery is possible with either a closed circuit desalination process and a conventional 2-st...

This paper will focus on brining an important issue of oxidative damage of RO membranes by the often overlooked bromamines residual that can form in waters containing high levels of bromide, such as municipal wastewater. The key issue for RO system operators and managers is understanding how the potential for the formation bromamines residual depen...