New Water Treatment Technology Could Help Recycle Even Super Salty Waters
research consortium analyzed an emerging form of reverse osmosis, called low-salt-rejection reverse osmosis. These novel systems could treat even highly salty water. But the design is so new it is still theoretical.
Although a few studies have evaluated the potential cost and efficiency of low-salt-rejection reverse osmosis systems, this study offers a more comprehensive analysis of their design, operation, and performance. To better understand the potential promise of these theoretical systems, the team used a supercomputer to hone in on the most optimal, cost-effective designs. They then explored how those designs might function in hundreds of thousands of scenarios .
“That would potentially take a really, really, really long time for them to solve,” said Ethan Young, a researcher at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and an author on the study. “We were able to do it in a few minutes with high-performance computing.”“The novelty of our study is the computational force power we brought to bear on this analysis,” added Bernard Knueven, a fellow NREL researcher and author.
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