Publication Date:
2019-07-13
Description:
FOST 2 is an integrated membrane system that incorporates a forward osmosis subsystem and a reverse osmosis subsystem working in series. It has been designed as a post treatment system to process the effluent from the Membrane Aerated Biological Reactor developed at NASA Johnson Space Center and Texas Tech University. Its function is to remove dissolved solids residual such as ammonia and suspended solids, as well as to provide a physical barrier to microbial and viral contamination. A tubular CTA membrane module from HTI and a flat-sheet lipid-base membrane module from Porifera were integrated and tested on FOST 2 in the past, using both a bioreactor's effluent and greywater as the feed solution. This paper documents the performance of FOST 2 after its upgrade with a hollow-fiber CTA membrane module from Toyobo, treating real black-water to generate the osmotic agent solution necessary to conduct growth studies of genetically engineered microorganism for the Synthetic Biological Membrane project.
Keywords:
Technology Utilization and Surface Transportation; Man/System Technology and Life Support
Type:
ICES-2016-190
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ARC-E-DAA-TN32145
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International Conference on Environmental Systems (ICES 2016); Jul 10, 2016 - Jul 14, 2016; Vienna; Austria
Format:
application/pdf
