Reverse Osmosis

Reverse Osmosis (RO)

Reverse Osmosis is the opposite of Osmosis. Reverse Osmosis is the process of forcing a solvent from a region of high solute concentration through a semipermable membrane to a region of low solute concentration by applying pressure over osmotic pressure. Whereas osmosis is a natural phenomenon that occurs in cells of living things where solvent molecules (usually water) will flow from low concentrated regions to high concentrated regions through a semipermeable membrane. This semipermeable membrane refers to any cell membrane or membrane that has a similar structure or part of a cell membrane. The movement of the solvent continues until a balanced concentration is reached on both sides of the membrane.