Design of Reverse Osmosis Water Treatment Unit Using Lanxess Lewaplus2

Basrah is the richest town and the economic capital of Iraq. It suffers from lack of drinking water. This project is a dream to supply drinking water to Basrah citizens within WHO standards. Water should pass sedimentation and filtration stages before interring reverse osmosis unit. The design is c...

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Main Authors: Khalid M. Mousa Al-zobai, Saad Ali Ahmed
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Language:English
Published: Al-Nahrain Journal for Engineering Sciences 2025-04-01
Series:مجلة النهرين للعلوم الهندسية
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Online Access:https://nahje.com/index.php/main/article/view/996
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description Basrah is the richest town and the economic capital of Iraq. It suffers from lack of drinking water. This project is a dream to supply drinking water to Basrah citizens within WHO standards. Water should pass sedimentation and filtration stages before interring reverse osmosis unit. The design is carried out using lewaplus2 software. Several parameters should be selected in the design step membrane type, number of stages, number per element in each stage, and the recovery percentage. An optimization is carried out using Minitab ver. 18 for the acceptable limit of TDS and minimum cost and it was found that the optimum conditions were 52% for first stage, the numbers of vessels are 20 for both the first and second stage. In addition, results showed that the pressure and the total dissolved solid increase with increasing the recovery while parameters like the feed flow rate per vessel, the power, and the cost are decreasing with the recovery. Mathematical model described the cost was conducted and statistical study was also done to ensure the results.
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spelling doaj-art-b8a1697f799e487082d47cd10332c9992025-08-20T02:16:01ZengAl-Nahrain Journal for Engineering Sciencesمجلة النهرين للعلوم الهندسية2521-91542521-91622025-04-0128110.29194/NJES.28010008Design of Reverse Osmosis Water Treatment Unit Using Lanxess Lewaplus2Khalid M. Mousa Al-zobai0Saad Ali Ahmed1Department of Chemical Engineering, Al-Nahrain University, Baghdad, IraqUniversity of Baghdad, College of Education of pure sciences (Iben Al Haithem), Baghdad, Iraq Basrah is the richest town and the economic capital of Iraq. It suffers from lack of drinking water. This project is a dream to supply drinking water to Basrah citizens within WHO standards. Water should pass sedimentation and filtration stages before interring reverse osmosis unit. The design is carried out using lewaplus2 software. Several parameters should be selected in the design step membrane type, number of stages, number per element in each stage, and the recovery percentage. An optimization is carried out using Minitab ver. 18 for the acceptable limit of TDS and minimum cost and it was found that the optimum conditions were 52% for first stage, the numbers of vessels are 20 for both the first and second stage. In addition, results showed that the pressure and the total dissolved solid increase with increasing the recovery while parameters like the feed flow rate per vessel, the power, and the cost are decreasing with the recovery. Mathematical model described the cost was conducted and statistical study was also done to ensure the results. https://nahje.com/index.php/main/article/view/996Reverse OsmosisMinitabLewaplus2Process design
spellingShingle Khalid M. Mousa Al-zobai
Saad Ali Ahmed
Design of Reverse Osmosis Water Treatment Unit Using Lanxess Lewaplus2
مجلة النهرين للعلوم الهندسية
Reverse Osmosis
Minitab
Lewaplus2
Process design
title Design of Reverse Osmosis Water Treatment Unit Using Lanxess Lewaplus2
title_full Design of Reverse Osmosis Water Treatment Unit Using Lanxess Lewaplus2
title_fullStr Design of Reverse Osmosis Water Treatment Unit Using Lanxess Lewaplus2
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title_short Design of Reverse Osmosis Water Treatment Unit Using Lanxess Lewaplus2
title_sort design of reverse osmosis water treatment unit using lanxess lewaplus2
topic Reverse Osmosis
Minitab
Lewaplus2
Process design
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