Generally, recovery is the ...
Published by Sameer Dohare, Managing Director at EnviroChem Services (OPC) Pvt. Ltd.
Generally, recovery is the permeate flow rate divided by feed water flow rate. However, for cross flow dead-end filtration the recovery will be difference between product volume and back wash volume divided by product volume.
Hence, the research papers showing low ratios of about 15% shall be possible, for small cycle time as well as high backwash water quantity.