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Wastewater Treatment by Reverse Osmosis: The Alternative To Chlorination
Wastewater Treatment by Reverse Osmosis: The Alternative To Chlorination
Introduction
Virtually all water sources require treatment prior How RO is better than chlorination:
The alternative:
to consumption to ensure that they do not present a One of the many alternatives to chlorination is the • Improves taste
health risk to the user. chlorine has become the modern method of “Reverse Osmosis”. reverse • Saves money
most widely used disinfectant for water treatment osmosis is a filtration process that reduces the number • Simple maintenance
of contaminants found in water • Removes impurities
worldwide, because of its potency, relative ease of
use and cost effectiveness, but time has shown its
Reverse Osmosis (RO): Draw Backs of RO:
ineffectiveness. In Kurdistan, the most broadly reverse osmosis requires an • The amount of water rejected is huge
used water treatment method in the plants is external force to complete • The membrane is delicate and if not maintained
chlorination, on this poster we try to explain the the transport. Therefore, regularly can be expensive to fix later.
pressure is a key part of the
effectiveness of the chlorination process and the
reverse osmosis process. the
alternative methods used to justify why external force of pressure Conclusion
chlorination is not the best option in water reverses the natural flow. Although chlorination tends to have its own
benefits, it also causes much more harm as it was
treatments For this purpose we sought out an Applying more pressure to recently proven, that’s why RO is the best modern
the contaminated water approach to water treatment
alternative method, which is Reverse Osmosis.
makes it more effective. • Chlorination alters the taste of the water, while RO improves
What is Chlorination: the taste.
• Chlorination does eradicate all the harmful organism within
Chlorination is a water treatment that destroys the water, while RO uses a filter to remove them.
disease-causing bacteria, nuisance bacteria, • Chlorination also causes a bad odor that is harmful to health
parasites and other organisms. and at large even poisonous