With SS Needle Valve, Quick Release
Coupling, Air Vent Valve, Paper Holder, Water Holder,
Pressure Gauge, 500 ml Measuring Jar & Filter Paper
Suspended solids and colloidal materials in feed water are one of the biggest problems in reverse osmosis systems. Even though most systems have some pretreatment including 5-micron prefilters, these fine particles are responsible for fouling of reverse osmosis membranes. |
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In order to have some measure of the degree of this fouling problem, a concept called Silt Density Index is used. Here a 0.45-micron filter is exposed to the feed water under pressure and filtration rates are calculated. A detailed description of the test is available in our operating
Procedure of the product manual.
An SDI of less than 5 is considered acceptable for the reverse osmosis systems. This means that at values of SDI of less than 5, the membranes should foul at a very low rate. Even though the concept works most of the time, there are exceptions when a lower SDI (less than 3) is desirable due to the nature of the suspended solids in that feed water.
An SDI measurement kit is available and is shown below:
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