Reverse Osmosis Monitoring and Troubleshooting

Introduction

The real reason of the “Reverse Osmosis Monitoring and Troubleshooting” training is to provide the water treatment professional, from the inexperienced to highly experienced, with an advanced comprehending of how to monitor and troubleshoot a reverse osmosis system.

Being equipped with this knowledge allows operators, engineers, maintenance personnel, and managers to use their own intellect, experience, and creative abilities to identify, assess and troubleshoot many situations that arise.

Objectives

This course will cover the following

 On-stream instruments needed for proper monitoring.
 Hand held/bench instruments needed for proper monitoring.
 Daily Monitoring.
 Weekly Trending.
 How to Use Free Monitoring Software for weekly trending.
 Monthly Monitoring.
 Start-up & Intermittent Monitoring.
 Performance Changes with Scaling, Fouling & Chemical attack.
 Pre-treatment Monitoring.
 Chemical Cleaning Monitoring.

Course Outlines

Day 1

 On-stream instruments needed for proper monitoring Single stage RO units
 Multi-stage RO units
 Double pass RO units
 Conductivity pH

Day 2

 Pressure
 Flow
 Temperature
 ORP
 SDI
 Hand-held/bench instruments needed for proper monitoring pH

Day 3

 Conductivity Chlorine
 Sulfite
 SDI
 Silica
 ORP
 Pressures

Day 4

 Flows
 Conductivities
 pH
 Temperature
 Silt Density Index (SDI)
 Free & Total Chlorine

Day 5

 Pressure drops
 Recovery rate
 Normalized Permeate Flow (NPF)
 Normalized Salt Passage (NSP)
 Normalized Pressure Dro