Discover which chemicals are used for RO membrane cleaning, how they remove fouling and scaling, and the best practices to maintain membrane performance and life. RO works by forcing water through a membrane under pressure, and everything that membrane blocks has to go somewhere. Most of it flushes out with the reject stream, but not all of it. Some sticks around on the membrane surface, or gets caught in the feed spacers, and over time that buildup starts pushing back against the whole system.
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