Frequently, membranes of Brackish Water Reverse Osmosis plants are getting clogged in North Central Sri Lanka due to Silica?

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Amirhossein Sadeghzadeh

Silica can be removed from water by precipitation with multivalent metal hydroxides, such as Fe(OH)3, Al(OH)3, and Mg(OH)2. This treatment removes both soluble and colloidal silica.

Article Silica removal to prevent silica scaling in reverse osmosis membranes

Article Fabrication and characterization of a novel hydrophobic poly...

Faraed Salman

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/239199599_A_study_of_CaCO_3_scale_formation_and_inhibition_in_RO_and_NF_membrane_processes,kindly check this link.

https://mdpi-res.com/d_attachment/membranes/membranes-11-00383/article_deploy/membranes-11-00383-v2.pdf,this link may be helpful.

https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperabs.aspx?paperid=104077,this link may be useful.