Reverse Osmosis Scaling Software in Python (ROSSpy) offers an open-source API to simulate the reactive transport geochemistry of Reverse Osmosis desalination. ROSSpy essentially translates user specifications of an RO system into PHREEQpy, which is the Python version of PHREEQC. The examples/scaling/scaling_validation directory of the ROSSpy GitHub details the numerous functions and accuracy of ROSSPy via Notebook examples. We encourage users and developers to critique and improve ROSSpy, as an open-source (MIT License) library, through GitHub issues.
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ROSSpy is installed in a command prompt, Powershell, Terminal, or Anaconda Command Prompt via pip:
pip install rosspy
The IPHREEQC module must then be installed, since this is the source of geochemical calculations and data for ROSSpy. The appropriate version of IPHREEQC can be installed from the USGS .
Linux installation may require addition steps (Ubuntu < 20 is currently unsupported):
wget https://water.usgs.gov/water-resources/software/PHREEQC/iphreeqc-3.7.3-15968.tar.gz tar -xzvf iphreeqc-3.7.3-15968.tar.gz cd iphreeqc-3.7.3-15968 ./configure make make check sudo make install pip show phreeqpy mkdir -p /path/to/site-packages/phreeqpy/iphreeqc sudo cp /usr/local/lib/libiphreeqc.so /path/to/site-packages/phreeqpy/iphreeqc/libiphreeqc.so.0.0.0
Please cite this work:
Freiburger, Andrew P. and Molins, Sergi and Buckley, Heather L., A One-Dimensional Reactive Transport Model of Geochemical Scaling in Reverse Osmosis Desalination. http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4124149