Reduction of Organic Content in Industrial and Residential Wastewater Using Reverse Osmosis and Advanced Oxidation Method by limiting the Total Suspended Solids

This paper presents the comparative study of Reverse Osmosis and Advanced Oxidation process for reducing the Total Suspended Solids to reduce the organic content in the wastewater. Reverse Osmosis and Advanced Oxidation methods are simulated by varying the membrane parameters or the oxidant dosage, to reduce the Total SuspendedSolids. In the first set of Reverse Osmosis, the dosage applied is 10.61 (m2) and the TSS in the effluent is 0.0 (kg/d). In the first set of Advanced Oxidation process, the oxidant dosage is 8.765 (mg/l) and TSS in the effluent is 7.229 (kg/d). From the obtained results, Reverse Osmosis removes Total Suspended Solids with better efficiency than Advanced Oxidation process.

I. Introduction

Reverse osmosis is a process of purifying water by using semi-permeable membranes as a filter under osmotic pressure. Osmotic pressure can be defined as a force which moves the water molecules from the higher concentration region to lower concentration region (Kim et al. 2018). Water demand and water scarcity in our country makes it mandatory to treat and reuse the wastewater, so, the water issues could be solved by recycling the used water [1]. Reverse Osmosis wastewater treatment plants can be applied in domestic wastewater treatment due to its compact size and in industrial wastewater treatment due to the metal ion removal property of the system [?], [10].