Forward osmosis: influence of sucrose and sodium chloride as draw solutions on process performance

This thesis work investigates experimentally the performance of different draw solutions on Forward Osmosis, first step of the Manipulated Osmosis Desalination (MOD) process. Different combinations of osmotic pressure contributions of sucrose and sodium chloride were tested. The experimental data were implemented in a model able to describe the water flux through the membrane in order to obtain implicitly the model parameters which express the physical phenomena causing a non- ideal water flux