Energy efficiency of staged reverse osmosis (RO) and closed-circuit
Both staged and semi-batch RO (also known as closed-circuit RO, or CCRO) systems have been applied for the treatment of low-salinity (<1,000 ppm TDS) municipal and industrial wastewaters in practice (Arola et al. 2019). However, the energy requirements and efficiencies of different time-variant RO systems are still largely unclear.