Hey all

[H2Ooh]

Hey everyone!

I work for a water softener company but I do have some knowledge on related areas. If anyone has questions about water softeners, how they work, filtration or other conditioning I'm the guy to ask!

I will keep any promo stuff out of my postings so I will be as impartial as possible. That said, imho it's always good to have someone to drop questions to around for companies that you use 🙂

Cheers,

H2ooh

 

[Dan]

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Welcome to UKPlumbersForums.co.uk H2Ooh. Thanks for introducing yourself.

 

[Plumbstar Tom]

details on the workings of a reverse osmosis system?

 

[H2Ooh]

details on the workings of a reverse osmosis system?

Hi Tom, not sure how detailed you want to go but basically reverse osmosis is a filtration system that reverses the osmosis process by applying pressure to your sourced water while it is on one side of a very finely permeable membrane.

The undesirable ions and molecules remain on this side of the membrane while allowing smaller (desirable ones) through.

It is called reverse because osmosis happens against the concentration gradient due to the aforementioned pressure.

There is plenty of information about these systems floating around as they are normally used to treat seawater.

You can see a schematic here: File:ReverseOsmosis with PressureExchanger.svg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hope this helps 🙂

 

[Plumbstar Tom]

thanks

I have never worked on or with one but have heard them mentioned and guessed it could have been called 'backwards osmosis' as it is osmosis but the other way round going through the membrane but not in thwe natural way so i did assume pressure would be involved

I appreciate your details and will have a butchers at the link when i get time

 

[copperman111]

hi and welcome!🙂

 

[PlumbBobBob]

hi welcome to the forum

steve