Abstract:About 3,500 small community based reverse osmosis (RO) plants have been installed in Rajasthan, India to comply with the recent Government of India guidelines for drinking water quality in rural areas. This paper presents the performance of four RO plants of Bharatpur, which face frequent replacement of membrane modules primarily due to accelerated scaling of carbonates and sulphates of calcium. A detailed chemical analysis of different streams from these plants was carried out to assess the reasons of scaling… Show more
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