Seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) desalination plants require complicated design, construction, and operation procedures because they generally involve various different systems such as intake, pretreatment, RO membranes, post-treatment, and brine outfall/management. Although several SWRO desalination plants have been constructed and operated in Sout...

This paper describes a model that can be used to assess RO membrane performance using local hydraulic resistances and local fouling rates. The model links measured plant parameters with the internal characteristics of RO membranes and was calibrated using RO projection programs, operation data or literature data....