Defining the Feed Water Flowrate and Recovery

Feed and Product water flowrates should be specified using the text boxes in the middle of the blue arrows. First, Feed or Permeate flow option should be selected using the radio button in the upper part of the arrow, later the flowrate can be specified.

Figure 1: Definition of feed or product flow for a UF system

Notes:

WAVE does give the user the possibility of defining a recovery that defines feed/product flow if product/feed flow is known. This is done by:

  1. Right-clicking on the UF icon
  2. Selecting “Define Recovery”
  3. Entering the desired recovery

    Figure 2: Definition of recovery for a UF system in the Home page

The default recovery value for UF systems is 95% in WAVE. The recovery defined above is a system recovery and is used– currently based on UF configuration and strainer recovery