Technological innovation for the production of drinking water by membrane processes Original Research Article

It is now common knowledge that membrane filtration processes can be considered as high performance separation techniques, not only in laboratory experiments but also in many industrial applications. With its strong development for the production of large-scale drinking water, the ultrafiltration on membrane hollow fibers appears as an appropriate, successful and economic technique for the purification of water in numerous applications. It often replaces more conventional desalination techniques. It has a capacity to eliminate not only small particles, but as a pathogenic, by including micro-organisms, viruses, and some dissolved organic species. The choice of this technique for the production of drinking water from groundwater in a rural environment (Morocco) is the object of an experimental project: the technological innovation and industrial partnership, Morocco and Noon, French Pyrenees, “Development of Membrane Technique for the Treatment of the water”.