TY - JOUR
T1 - Selective separation of seawater Mg2+ ions for use in downstream water treatment processes
AU - Telzhensky, Marina
AU - Birnhack, Liat
AU - Lehmann, Orly
AU - Windler, Eial
AU - Lahav, Ori
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2011 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2011/11/15
Y1 - 2011/11/15
N2 - A nanofiltration-based method is presented for selectively separating soluble Mg(II) species from seawater, with the aim of using the Mg-loaded brine for either enriching desalinated water with magnesium ions or for enhancing precipitation of struvite from wastewater steams. Two 2.4' commercial NF membranes were tested under varying operational conditions. The membrane that was chosen for further investigation (DS-5 DL, Osmonics) showed lower Cl:Mg and Na:Mg concentration ratios in the brine, and improved performance (with respect to the investigated process) at high recovery values. Since the addition of antiscalants was perceived detrimental to the downstream uses of the brine, the aquatic chemistry program PHREEQC was used to simulate the critical (highest) recovery values at which no CaSO4 would precipitate, assuming two concentration polarization factors. To prevent CaCO3 precipitation at the critical recovery values a theoretical calculation was performed (PHREEQC) to determine the required strong acid dosages to the raw seawater. Using the DS-5 DL membrane at 64% recovery, the attained Mg(II) concentration in the brine was 3500mg/l. Therefore, for attaining 12.15mg Mg/l of desalinated water the brine should be dosed to the water at a 1:288 ratio, resulting in additional concentrations of 32.5mg SO4-2/l, 89.3mg Cl-/l, 39.4mg Na+/l, 3.3mg Ca+2/l, and 0.01mg B/l. The overall cost of the proposed process was estimated at 0.00098$/m3 product water, i.e. approximately five times lower than two assessed alternative processes and more than one order of magnitude cheaper than implementing direct dissolution of chemicals, using either MgCl2 or MgSO4.
AB - A nanofiltration-based method is presented for selectively separating soluble Mg(II) species from seawater, with the aim of using the Mg-loaded brine for either enriching desalinated water with magnesium ions or for enhancing precipitation of struvite from wastewater steams. Two 2.4' commercial NF membranes were tested under varying operational conditions. The membrane that was chosen for further investigation (DS-5 DL, Osmonics) showed lower Cl:Mg and Na:Mg concentration ratios in the brine, and improved performance (with respect to the investigated process) at high recovery values. Since the addition of antiscalants was perceived detrimental to the downstream uses of the brine, the aquatic chemistry program PHREEQC was used to simulate the critical (highest) recovery values at which no CaSO4 would precipitate, assuming two concentration polarization factors. To prevent CaCO3 precipitation at the critical recovery values a theoretical calculation was performed (PHREEQC) to determine the required strong acid dosages to the raw seawater. Using the DS-5 DL membrane at 64% recovery, the attained Mg(II) concentration in the brine was 3500mg/l. Therefore, for attaining 12.15mg Mg/l of desalinated water the brine should be dosed to the water at a 1:288 ratio, resulting in additional concentrations of 32.5mg SO4-2/l, 89.3mg Cl-/l, 39.4mg Na+/l, 3.3mg Ca+2/l, and 0.01mg B/l. The overall cost of the proposed process was estimated at 0.00098$/m3 product water, i.e. approximately five times lower than two assessed alternative processes and more than one order of magnitude cheaper than implementing direct dissolution of chemicals, using either MgCl2 or MgSO4.
KW - Cost assessment
KW - Desalinated water
KW - Magnesium ions
KW - Seawater nanofiltration
KW - Struvite recovery
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cej.2011.09.082
DO - 10.1016/j.cej.2011.09.082
M3 - 文章
AN - SCOPUS:81755174291
VL - 175
SP - 136
EP - 143
JO - Chemical Engineering Journal
JF - Chemical Engineering Journal
SN - 1385-8947
IS - 1
ER -