Reclaiming Water from Wastewater using Forward Osmosis

Title

Reclaiming Water from Wastewater using Forward Osmosis

 Author

Lutchmiah, K.

Contributor

Rietveld, L.C. (promotor)

Faculty

Civil Engineering and Geosciences

 Department

Water Management

 Date

2014-07-02

 Abstract

Water scarcity is a global issue and waste accumulation is a steadily growing one. The innovative Sewer Mining concept, described in this thesis, is an example of an integrated forward osmosis application which incorporates different technologies to attain one goal: water recovery from wastewater, and subsequent energy production. Forward osmosis membrane technology shows great potential as a sustainable treatment of wastewater. The high quality reclaimed water is a suitable and low cost alternative for many industrial processes that currently exhaust much of the available drinking water supply. By extracting water and energy from wastewater, this thesis aims to alleviate water stress while simultaneously changing the way wastewater is perceived: not as waste, but as a useful resource.

 Subject

forward osmosis

 To reference this document use:

https://doi.org/10.4233/uuid:b9b25f74-5999-43c1-a61d-c36e3062f6f3

 Embargo date

2014-10-30

 ISBN

9789461863164

 Part of collection

Institutional Repository

 Document type

doctoral thesis

 Rights

(c) 2014 Lutchmiah, K.
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