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Extraction of Water from Contaminated Effluents by Forward Osmosis

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Extraction 2018

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Water is a critical commodity of our generation and a key compound for the chemical and mining industries. Sustainable industrial development is directly associated with the ability to recover clean water from contaminated sources. Forward Osmosis (FO) is a low-energy footprint membrane process allowing the recovery of clean water from high salinity effluent streams. In FO, water is recovered spontaneously into a concentrated draw solution (CDS). Energy is required to separate the recovered water from the resulting dilute draw solution (DDS). In the current work, the fundamentals of the FO process and the most important aspects affecting its performance are discussed. An energy comparison of FO and conventional water recovery technologies is presented. Finally, the opportunities FO presents in the field of hydrometallurgy are analyzed.

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to acknowledge the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), the Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE), and the Southern Ontario Water Consortium (SOWC) for their financial support of this project. We also acknowledge Forward Water Technologies Inc. for their technical advice.

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  1. Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto, 200 College Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 3E5, Canada

    Georgios Kolliopoulos & Vladimiros G. Papangelakis

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  1. Kingston Process Metallurgy Inc., Kingston, Canada

    Boyd R. Davis

  2. Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, USA

    Michael S. Moats

  3. Rio Tinto Kennecott Utah Copper Corporation, South Jordan, USA

    Shijie Wang

  4. RHI Magnesita, Leoben, Austria

    Dean Gregurek

  5. BBA Inc., Montreal, Canada

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  6. Extractive Metallurgy Consultant, Kingston, Canada

    Thomas P. Battle

  7. Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, USA

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  8. Aurubis, Hamburg, Germany

    Gerardo Raul Alvear Flores

  9. University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia

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  10. XPS-Glencore, Falconbridge, Canada

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  11. University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA

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  12. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

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  13. University of Lorraine, Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, France

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  14. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

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  15. Newmont Mining, Elko, USA

    Matthew Jeffrey

  16. University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

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  17. Miller Metallurgical Services Pty Ltd., Brisbane, Australia

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  18. University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Australia

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  19. Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

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  21. MetNetH20 Inc., Peterborough, Canada

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  22. Hatch, Mississauga, Canada

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  23. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

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  24. SGS Minerals, Lakefield, Canada

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  25. J.R. Goode and Associates Metallurgical Consulting, Toronto, Canada

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  26. Avalon Rare Metals Inc., Toronto, Canada

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  27. University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

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  28. SGS Minerals, Lakefield, Canada

    Alex Forstner

  29. Newmont Mining, Greenwood Village, USA

    Ronel Kappes

  30. Newmont Mining Corporation, Greenwood village, USA

    Tarun Bhambhani

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Kolliopoulos, G., Papangelakis, V.G. (2018). Extraction of Water from Contaminated Effluents by Forward Osmosis. In: Davis, B., et al. Extraction 2018. The Minerals, Metals & Materials Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95022-8_157

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