UF Membrane by Raindrops Water Technologies

Raindrops Water Technologies offer a wide range of UF Membrane /Systems as per customer requirement, we design Ultrafiltration plants for various applications like RO pre-treatment, drinking water, ETP, STP and customised requirement.
Ultrafiltration Means Ultrafiltration is a separation process using membranes with pore sizes in the range of 0.1 to 0.001 micron.

Typically, ultrafiltration will remove high-molecular-weight substances, colloidal materials, and organic and inorganic polymeric molecules. Low-molecular-weight organics and ions such as sodium, calcium, magnesium chloride, and sulphate are not removed. Because only high-molecular weight species are removed, the osmotic pressure differential across the membrane surface is negligible. Low applied pressures are therefore sufficient to achieve high flux rates from an ultrafiltration membrane. The flux of a membrane is defined as the amount of permeate produced per unit area of membrane surface per unit time.
Generally, flux is expressed as gallons per square foot per day (GFD) or as cubic meters per square meters per day.Ultrafiltration membranes can have extremely high fluxes but in most practical applications the flux varies between 50 and 200 GFD at an operating pressure of about 50 psi, in contrast, reverse osmosis membranes only produce between 10 to 30 GFD at 200 to 400 psi.Ultrafilter vs. Conventional Filter

Ultrafiltration, like reverse osmosis, is a cross-flow separation process. Here liquid stream to be treated (feed) flows tangentially along the membrane surface, thereby producing two streams. The stream of liquid that comes through the membrane is called permeate. The type and amount of species left in the permeate will depend on the characteristics of the membrane, the operating conditions, and the quality of feed. The other liquid stream is called concentrate and gets progressively concentrated in those species removed by the membrane. In cross-flow separation, therefore, the membrane itself does not act as a collector of ions, molecules, or colloids but merely as a barrier to these species.Conventional filters such as media filters or cartridge filters, on the other hand, only remove suspended solids by trapping these in the pores of the filter media. These filters, therefore, act as depositories of suspended solids and have to be cleaned or replaced frequently. Conventional filters are used upstream from the membrane system to remove relatively large suspended solids and to let the membrane do the job of removing fine particles and dissolved solids.

In ultrafiltration, for many applications, no prefilters are used and ultrafiltration modules concentrate all of the suspended and emulsified materials.Factors Affecting the Performance of Ultrafiltration