Nanofiltration
Reverse osmosis
Heavy metals
Electroplating wastewater
Mathematical model.
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The present work aimed to study the efficiency of nanofiltration (NF) and reverse osmosis (RO) membrane for heavy metal
removal from wastewater and study the factors affecting the performance of these two membranes: feed concentrations for heavy metal
ions, pressure, and flow rate. The experimental results showed, heavy metals concentration in permeate increase with raise in feed
concentrations, decline with increase in flow rate. The raise of pressure, heavy metals concentration decreases for RO membrane, but
for NF membrane the concentration decrease and then at high pressure increase. The rejection percentage for chromium in NF and RO
is 99.7% and 99.9%, for copper is 98.4% and 99.3%, for zinc is 97.9% and 99.5%, for nickel is 97.2% and
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