Reverse Osmosis Water Filters - The Chemistry of the Membranes

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Osmosis - It's Natural! When Water Goes Against the Flow! (The Normal Flow, That Is)

Osmosis is a common process in living organisms that is used to transport cellular fluids. Generally, pure fluid moves through cell walls (membranes) toward less pure or more concentrated solutions. Although mangrove trees, which obtain their transpiration water from the sea, use a physical ultrafiltration process similar to "reverse osmosis", most natural osmosis processes work with the more dilute solvent moving into the more concentrated solution.


By applying pressure to increase a flow through a membrane that has pores small enough to prevent the movement of molecules larger than a water molecule (thus making the membrane "semipermeable"), it is possible to cause the solvent (water) to flow across the membrane away from the more concentrated solution containing heavy metals, salts, and other contaminants.

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It's the Membrane! The Semipermeable Kind! 

Many membranes are natural--such as those used by the mangrove trees mentioned above and animals such as sea turtles and the crocodilians.


Using research on how these organisms separate fresh water from the salt-water environments they live in, scientists have come up with improvements on a wide variety of ways to separate impurities from water. One way to produce clean water is by boiling and collecting the condensate in a separate container--this method is called "distillation". Another method is to put electrodes into the water and run an electric charge through the electrodes. This eliminates the ions of salts in the water--in the process called "deionization".


Reverse osmosis membranes have been made from cellophane and cellulose ester films (cellulose acetate), aromatic polyamides (nylon), and graphitic oxide (oxidized graphite flakes, which retain their shapes, deposited on a porous support).

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