M.

Tech
Dissertation-Presentation
on

“Qualitative analysis of community RO plant for developing

mitigation strategy with emphasis on membrane fouling”

SUPERVISOR SUBMITTED BY
Dr. A.B. GUPTA ABHISHEK SOTI
Professor, Civil Engineering (2017PCE5239)
Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur
OBJECTIVE

 To increase the performance of RO plant and make the

cost effective operation by removing multiple
contaminants.
 To understand the overall performance decline of RO plant
by membrane autopsy (most efficient and effective way of
characterising the membrane foulants)
 Area of survey
PLANT LOCATION - BHARATPUR

PIDHYANI CHAK HUNDRA

PLANT FLOW PRESSURE RECOVERY ANTISCALE
LOCATION RATIO NT

CHAK RAW - IN - 15.3Kg/cm² 21.052% Not using

HUNDRA 3800LPH OUT -14.0Kg/cm²
PRODUCT- 800LPH
REJECT -
3000LPH

PLANT FLOW PRESSURE RECOVERY ANTISCALE

LOCATION RATIO NT

PIDHYANI RAW - IN - 15.2Kg/cm² 27.5% Aventura

2000LPH OUT -14.8Kg/cm² ( 100ml / 1 ltr.)
PRODUCT- 550LPH
REJECT -
1450LPH
Chemical analysis of “CHAK HUNDRA” plant :-
Chemical analysis of “PIDHYANI” plant :-
SEM-EDS Analysis of Fouled Membranes
 cps/eV
ELEMENT Wt(%)
3.5
O 50.16

Fe 18.27
3.0
Si 9.82

Al 5.98

2.5 C 4.87

S 4.06

2.0 Cr 2.67

Mg 1.94
K Cr
S Fe Mg Ca 1.45
1.5 C O Al Si S K Ca Cr Fe
Ca K 0.79

1.0

0.5

0.0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
keV
FTIR result of Fouled membrane
 Results of FTIR

• Peaks at 1405 cm-1 in finger print region is of NH2

Amide-II group
• Peaks near 3312 cm-1 of N-H stretching (Amines)
• Peaks near 1560 cm-1 of N-H bend (Amines primary)
• Peaks in range 2800-3000 of alkane group ( H-C-H
symmetric and asymmetric stretch )
• Peaks near 1650 cm-1, 1147 cm-1, 1151 cm-1, 1738 cm-
1 are of poly Sulfone support layer (El-Arnaouty et al.,
2018).
RAMAN result of Fouled membrane
 Future work

 To identify the crystalline phases present in a material and

chemical composition information with XRD results.
 Cross verification of chromium and other elements with ion-
chromatography
 Leather industries of bharthapur is responsible or not for this
chromium.
Thank you…..