SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR TREATING WATER AND SPIRAL WOUND MEMBRANE ELEMENT

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APP PUB NO 20130146540A1
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13315731

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A spiral would membrane element has a feed channel spacer providing a tortuous feed flow path through an open spacer mesh material. The feed flow path may force the feed liquid to flow across substantially all of an adjacent membrane surface. The length of the flow path and average cross-flow velocity are increased relative to a straight flow path. A rise in pressure drop that might otherwise be produced by the increased average cross-flow velocity is reduced by the open spacer mesh. In a system having two or more upstream and downstream spiral wound membrane elements, a downstream element may have a feed channel spacer providing a tortuous flow path while an upstream element has a feed channel spacer providing a less tortuous flow path or a straight flow path.

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GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY1 NEUMANN WAY EVENDALE OH 45215

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BHARWADA, Upen Jayant Scottsdale, US 7 71
DONTULA, Prasanna Rao Bangalore, IN 13 86
TAYALIA, Yatin Singapore, SG 14 126

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