Technology • Treatment process

Pretreatment & Membranes

Unit operations that condition the feed before the main separation step.

Filtration, membrane and exchange steps that sit ahead of a primary separation process. They decide whether the primary process is protectable, and several of them are fully quantified inside EngiMetric today.

5 technologies in this category · 4 with an EngiMetric quantitative model

Granular-bed filtration that removes suspended solids ahead of a membrane, sized here from design flow, filtration rate and bed geometry.

  • Active
  • Partial
  • mature

Low-pressure membrane barrier that removes colloids, bacteria and suspended solids ahead of RO or NF, quantified by membrane area, TMP and flux condition.

  • Active
  • Available
  • mature

Loose-rejection membrane separation between UF and RO, used for hardness reduction and partial demineralisation before an RO stage.

  • Active
  • Available
  • established

Ion Exchange IX / IER

Exchanger-based demineralisation and softening, sized by resin volume, bed area, service flow and regenerant demand.

  • Active
  • Available
  • mature

Disposable or washable depth filters that protect downstream membranes from particles, ahead of any high-pressure stage.

  • Information only
  • Not quantitatively modeled
  • mature