{"id":4204,"date":"2023-03-09T14:38:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T14:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stark-water.com\/?p=4204"},"modified":"2025-07-14T15:00:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T15:00:01","slug":"the-difference-between-reverse-osmosis-high-pressure-membrane-and-low-pressure-membrane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stark-water.com\/fr\/blog\/the-difference-between-reverse-osmosis-high-pressure-membrane-and-low-pressure-membrane\/","title":{"rendered":"The difference between reverse osmosis high pressure membrane and low pressure membrane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Reverse osmosis (RO) is a process that uses hydraulic pressure to push water through a semi-permeable membrane, which removes dissolved constituents from the water<\/p>\n<p>. High-pressure membrane systems like RO are typically used for this purpose<\/p>\n<p>. The difference between high pressure and low pressure membranes lies in the applied pressure. Standard RO operates at 195 psig, while low-pressure\/low-energy (LP\/LE) elements operate at 115 psig<\/p>\n<p>. High-pressure reverse osmosis utilizes hydraulic pressure in excess of solution osmotic pressure to drive the transport of water across a semipermeable membrane<br \/>\n.The main difference between high pressure and low pressure membranes is the operating pressure. Low-pressure membranes are operated at pressures ranging from 10 to 30 lb\/in. (psi), whereas high-pressure membranes, including nanofiltration, are operated at pressures ranging from 75 to 250 psi[1][2]. High-pressure membrane filtration requires internal pressures of 1000 psi (70 bar) or higher, while low-pressure microfiltration units require pressures of under 15 psi (1 bar)[3]. Additionally, high-pressure membranes are typically used for reverse osmosis (RO) systems which require a tight membrane that retains almost all dissolved species including sugars and salts[3].<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/stark-water.com\/fr\/page\/contact-us.html\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/stark-water.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image_1655966886_\u5fae\u4fe1\u56fe\u7247_20211020164443.jpg\" style=\"width: 1080px; height: 1440px;\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The difference between reverse osmosis high pressure membrane and low pressure membrane,do you know it? click it.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-water-treatment-industry-information"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stark-water.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stark-water.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stark-water.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stark-water.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stark-water.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stark-water.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stark-water.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stark-water.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stark-water.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stark-water.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}