SOLUTIONS · RO & MEMBRANES
AvailableScaling risk at the tail element — not the feed sample.
AquaAdvisor speciates feed and concentrate, evaluates sparingly soluble salt limits and antiscalant demand, and flags silica and organic fouling risk — from the feed analyses you already collect on the account — so recovery and CIP decisions are chemically grounded.
WHAT GOES WRONG
What goes wrong on RO and membranes
Feed SI understates concentrate risk
The limiting salt often saturates at the last element. A feed-only index calculation is the wrong envelope — and a weak defense of the program you sell.
Antiscalant dose is copied from the last plant
Without demand tied to concentrate speciation and temperature, programs overtreat or underdose through seasonal swings on the account.
CIP is calendar-driven
Normalized differential pressure and permeate quality drift for weeks before anyone names silica vs organic vs scale — after the customer already sees flux loss.
Recovery targets ignore chemistry
Pushing recovery without mineral-specific limits trades gallons for irreversible membrane damage the program is hired to prevent.
WHAT AQUAADVISOR MODELS
What AquaAdvisor models
- Feed and concentrate speciation
- Scaling potential at the tail element
- Antiscalant demand; sparingly soluble salt limits
- Silica and organic fouling risk
- Recovery optimization; CIP triggering
DATA BY FIDELITY
Required data inputs by tier
Baseline
- Feed water full mineral panel and temperature
- Design or operating recovery and stage configuration
- Product / antiscalant identity and current dose
Instrumented
- Online conductivity, flow, and pressure by stage
- Periodic concentrate samples where accessible
- Normalized performance history
Hourly speciation
- Hourly feed chemistry estimation
- Event log for CIP, cartridge changes, and source switches
High fidelity
- Element-level geometry and membrane type for reduced-order correction
- High-frequency correction streams
OUTPUTS
Outputs and decisions enabled
- Concentrate and tail-element saturation for sparingly soluble salts
- Antiscalant demand estimates
- Silica and organic fouling risk indicators
- Recovery envelopes that respect mineral limits
- CIP trigger recommendations grounded in modeled state
Decisions enabled
What you can decide
- Whether a recovery increase you recommend is chemically defensible
- When to CIP before irreversible flux loss on the account
- How a makeup source change on the account moves the scale envelope
COMPLIANCE OVERLAYS
Relevant compliance overlays
- Basis-of-design outputs for the pretreatment and recovery cases you bid or defend
- Exportable chemistry history your account team can attach to OEM and engineering conversations
- Contract deliverable tracking for the membrane service you deliver on the account
AI IN THIS ASSET
AI on RO and membrane trains
Recovery and CIP decisions for the membrane trains you treat — explained from concentrate speciation, not a flux-decline pattern matcher alone.
- Ranked recovery options with sparingly soluble salt saturation at the tail element shown — a bid or operating case you can defend
- Antiscalant demand narratives when feed quality drifts on the account, citing the mineral set that moves
- CIP trigger recommendations from predicted scale and fouling risk, not calendar habit alone
- Ask-your-system answers on which stage is closest to silica or sulfate limits this month, written for the account team
Model a feed from an account you treat.
Bring a recent feed analysis and stage configuration from an account you treat. We walk concentrate risk and antiscalant demand live.