Integrating forward osmosis in thermal desalination processes
Forward osmosis can reduce scaling and increase top brine temperature in thermal desalination (Multi-stage flash distillation, MSF) processes
In their article "Viability of integrating forward osmosis (FO) as pretreatment for existing MSF...
Inquiry: forward osmosis elements needed for an FO/RO wastewater pilot plant
Commercial suppliers needed to provide FO modules for an FO pilot system
Recently we received an inquiry from David (product engineer at PRODINTEC) who is on the lookout for FO modules to...
Inquiry: draw and feed circulation paths in FO modules
How do draw and feed streams circulate in an FO module?
Most of us who are interested in forward osmosis technologies and their applications are familiar with the general concept of how...
Inquiry about commercially available PRO membranes
Sourcing of commercially available Pressure Retarded Osmosis (PRO) membranes for research purposes?
Recently, we received an inquiry from Lamar regarding the best commercial source of PRO membranes:
Greetings,
I am trying to find the...
Forward osmosis market survey: preliminary results
Initial poll results show a strong demand for bench and pilot scale forward osmosis systems.
Based on the votes from the initial 29 respondents, there is a strong demand in the FO...
Forward osmosis systems for nitrate removal
Industrial request for forward osmosis based nitrate removal in desalination
ForwardOsmosisTech recently received a request from an Austrian company (see below) who is interested in a forward osmosis system capable of Nitrate...
FO commercialization: Oasys Water speeds ahead while Modern Water repositions
Oasys Water to double revenue in 2015 - from 10 to 20 million USD
In a recent WaterWorld article ("Forward Osmosis: Rethinking a Maverick technology"), Jim Matheson - CEO and president of...
Can forward osmosis be used for dissolving and diluting sucrose in industrial production?
Can forward osmosis systems be used for process optimization in white Biotech?
Recently, we at ForwardOsmosisTech were fortunate to receive a question from an industrial end user regarding the proposed use of...
The difference between a PRO process and the PRO membrane orientation mode
PRO process vs. PRO membrane orientation mode - a question from one of our readers
Recently, ForwardOsmosisTech received the following email from one our readers:
Hi
I'm really confused, and have one question about...
Efficiency of forward osmosis desalination by McGovern et. al. 2014
Article suggesting that forward osmosis is not energy efficient compared to reverse osmosis gains social media attention
On June 21st 2014, McGovern, a post-doc at MIT's Department of Mechanical engineering, and co-workers...
