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Table 5.20A Membrane characteristics

Parameter Application
Power Power Power Pulp+ MDF Pulp+ Textile Food Food Automotive
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Name of Flag Fen (MF) Flag Fen (RO) Eraring Apeldoorn Chirk Kirkniemi South Kanagawa Passchendaele Germany
installation Wigston Prefecture
Company Alpheus Alpheus Vivendi Triqua BV Esmil Process Metso PCI Mitsubshi Paques Rhodia
Environmental Environmental Systems Paperchem Oy Membranes Rayon Co Orelis
Ltd
Me m b r a n e Hollow fibre Spiral wound Spiral Tube Spiral CR filter Spiral Hollow fibre Hollow fibre Plate
geometry wound wound (flat sheet) wound
Height (mm) 2000 1524 1016 - 1000 - - 486 2600 900
Width (mm) 1.3 (OD) - - - - - - 48 1300 310
Diameter (mm) 150 200 216 8 200 1000 - 798 200 1.6
Supplier PALL filtration Koch - - 0 s m o n i c s Nadir Filtration PCI Mitsubshi X-flow Rhodia
GmbH Membranes Rayon Co Orelis
Ltd
Membrane 1700 1451 2022 720 1152 960 700 0.35per
area (m2) plate
Surface area 50 52 - 31.6 80 - 160 35 55
per module
(m’)
Material PVDF Polyamide Cellulose PVDF Polyamide Regenerated Polysulphone Polyethylene PESjPVP Acrylonitrile
acetate cellulose.
polysulphone
Pore size (pm) 0.1 - - - - 0.1 - -
Material cut-off - 200 98% salt 30-100 - - 50 50
(ma) rejection
Surface charge ~ - - Anionic Slightly negative - Anionic Positive
(nearly 0)
Hydrophobicity Hydrophilic Hydrophobic - Hydrophilic - Hydrophilic - Hydrophilic Hydrophilic Hydrophilic
No. of streams 2 2 2 - - 1 2 1 - 1
Modules per 17 4:2 array 10:4 - - 5:3:1 array - 6 1
stream array