RO System Design Basics - Fundamentals of RO

LG Water Solutions' Eugene Rozenbaoum, Ph.D., Senior Applications Manager, covers how reverse osmosis (RO) works and critical operating conditions that affect RO performance.

This tutorial is part 1 of 5 from the webinar "RO System Design Basics," covering the fundamentals of water chemistry and sources, reverse osmosis, design parameters, different configurations, and pre-treatments. Complete webinar videos are available in our playlist.

0:00 Introduction
2:14 Understanding RO
4:08 RO transport equations
5:20 Types of membrane filtration
6:26 Concentration polarization
8:09 RO process definitions
10:08 Conditions affecting RO performance

LG Water Solutions, a business division of LG Chem, manufactures seawater and brackish water reverse osmosis membrane elements based on the breakthrough thin-film nanocomposite (TFN) technology.