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Membrane Separation Systems

Pressure-driven membranes that separate contaminants by size — from colloids and bacteria down to dissolved ions.

Pressure-driven UF · NF · RO Up to 99.7% rejection PLC · HMI · SCADA

Every membrane works on one principle: feed water is forced under pressure against a semi-permeable barrier. What passes and what is rejected depends almost entirely on the pore size of that barrier — and from ultrafiltration through nanofiltration to reverse osmosis, the pore tightens by three orders of magnitude.

Membranes sit at the heart of the treatment train: downstream of the filtration and softening stages that protect them, upstream of the ion-exchange polishing that takes purity the final step. Choosing between the three is a question of what must come out, and at what energy cost.

Pore Range
0.10 – 0.0001
micron
Capacity Envelope
10 – 3928
m³/day
System Recovery
35 – 95
%
Where This Category Sits Membrane stages highlighted

A representative industrial train. Pre-treatment protects the membranes; ion-exchange and disinfection finish the job downstream.

The Three Systems

Each opens onto full specifications, working principle and application detail.

Selection Matrix Looser → tighter

Read down the column that matches your requirement. Where two will do the duty, the looser membrane is almost always the cheaper one to run.

Parameter
UF
Ultrafiltration
NF
Nanofiltration
RO
Reverse Osmosis
Pore size
0.10 – 0.01 µm
0.01 – 0.001 µm
~0.0001 µm
Molecular cut-off
60 – 4 kDa
200 – 400 Da
Ionic
Removes
Colloids, bacteria, viruses, pyrogens
Organics, divalent salts, hardness, colour
Dissolved salts & ions, organics, pyrogens
Passes through
All dissolved salts
Monovalent salts (20 – 80% rejected)
Very little (96 – 99.7% rejected)
Operating pressure
Low — feed pump only
≤ 300 psi
150 – 1200 psi
Capacity range
38 – 3928 m³/day
10 – 3200 m³/day
10 – 3200 m³/day
Lead duty
Pre-RO protection, WFI polish
Partial desalination, colour & COD
TDS reduction, ultra-pure feed
Figures are indicative design ranges — final selection follows a feed water analysis.
Reference Installations

Client names withheld under confidentiality. Full commissioning data available on request.

Pharmaceutical · API
Double-pass RO with EDI polish
API manufacturer, Gujarat. Double-pass RO feeding EDI and a twelve-point purified water loop, validated to USP and Eur.Ph.
480
m³/day
99.5%
rejection
Food & Beverage · Dairy
UF whey protein concentration
Dairy processor, Maharashtra. Hollow-fibre UF replacing an evaporation step, cutting thermal load on the concentration duty.
180
m³/day
10 kDa
cut-off
Textile · Dyehouse
NF colour removal for reuse
Dyehouse, Tamil Nadu. Nanofiltration stripping colour bodies and divalents so treated effluent returns to the dye process.
78%
recovery
95%
colour out
PDF Technical Datasheet Membrane Separation Systems — full specification set UF, NF and RO design envelopes, module tables, utility requirements and P&ID references.
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Membrane selection starts with your water, not our catalogue.

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