What is Reverse Osmosis tank?
Reverse Osmosis is technology that used to remove a large majority of contaminants from water by pushing the water under pressure through a semi permeable membrane.
The reverse osmosis tank is a storage tank where the collected water purifies by the reverse osmosis membrane. The reverse osmosis filtration process is a slow one. Water is pushed through the semipermeable membrane one drop at a time. The tank allows water to accumulate, so, when you go to pour yourself a glass of water you can have immediate access to plenty of water.
How does Reverse Osmosis work?
There are generally four stages in the RO process
- Sediment Filter
- Carbon Filter
- Reverse Osmosis Membrane
- Polishing Filter
Sediment Filter: A sediment filter captures and removes particulate matter like dirt and debris from your water. Sediment is a generic term for all the particulate matter in your water that is not liquid like clay, soil and grains of sand into your well groundwater supply.
Carbon Filters: Carbon Filters remove organics that can affect the taste, odour and colour of your water and reduce chlorine, some pesticides, industrial solvents, polychlorinated biphenyls and radon gases.
Reverse Osmosis Membrane: Membrane act as a barrier to separate contaminants from water and they remove the particles contaminating the water.
Polishing Filter : Polishing filter leave solids behind similar to a home filter system, the polishing filter retains solids as the water flows through different filter media.
Reverse Osmosis works by using a high pressure pump to increase the pressure on the salt side of the RO and force the water across the semi- permeable Ro membrane, leaving almost all of dissolved salts behind in the reject stream. The amount of pressure required depends on the salt concentration of the feed water. The more concentrated the feed water, the more pressure is required to overcome the osmotic pressure.
Reverse Osmosis water purification process is a simple and straightforward water filtration process. It is accomplished by water pressure pushing tap water through a semipermeable to remove impurities from water. This is a process in which dissolved inorganic solids (such as salts) are removed from a solution (such as water).
The feed water enters the RO membrane under pressure the water molecules pass through the semi-permeable membrane an the salts and other contaminants are not allowed to pass and are discharged through the reject stream which goes to drain or fed back into the feed water supply in some circumstances to be recycled through the RO system to save water. The water that makes it through the RO membrane is called permeate or product water are usually has around 95% to 99% of the dissolved salts removed from it.
Reverse osmosis is capable of removing up to 99 percent of 65 different contaminants, including lead, fluoride, chlorine, dissolved salts, and more.
Reverse Osmosis is very effective in treating brackish, surface and ground water for both large and small flows applications. Industries like pharmaceutical, boiler feed water, food and beverage and metal manufacturing use RO water.
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