Initial validation of a reverse osmosis simulator

Abstract

Reverse Osmosis (RO) is the most common technique to produce drinkable water in arid regions. The desalination plants are usually designed for a short number of constant operation points. A dynamic strategy of control would help to decrease the operation expense and the equipments cost. However, the lack of dynamic simulation tools for this kind of plants, avoids the optimal design, which would use a continuously changeable operation point. For this, a new dynamic simulation library of RO plants was presented elsewhere. Now, the present paper deals with the validation of that library, using experimental data from a real RO plant.