If you’re dealing with high-TDS wastewater, the short answer is this: DTRO (disc-tube reverse osmosis) usually wins when your feed is dirty, scaling-prone, and loaded with suspended solids, while conventional RO is the better pick when your stream is clean, consistent, and you want the lowest cost per cubic meter of permeate. I’ve commissioned both types on landfill leachate, plating rinse water, and chemical plant effluent, and the deciding factor is almost never the membrane chemistry itself. It’s how much pretreatment the feed demands and how often you can afford to stop the plant for cleaning.<\/p>\n
Let me walk you through how I actually make this call on real projects, because the brochure comparison sheets leave out the parts that cost you money.<\/p>\n