Yep. I was just thinking he was a magnitude of order off!!!!
What is really crazy is that at 98% rejection, it would be 9,000 gallons.
I think the trade off is chlorine/fluoride/chloroamines vs well capacity.
We started getting mud once after running it 5 hrs straight. By bed time we were washing dishes and showering, no problem.
Be careful. I would think if you're starting to get mud, that mud COULD be grinding up your well pump too.
When it goes down the drain, it returns to the ground refiltered.
So in theory it shouldnt run dry then? I mean if he has a 100GPD unit it should only be drawing less than 22ml of water a second and the waste water should be returned up to 18ml/s to the well. These arent mind blowing flow rates.
Not sure where you got 9000gal of waste water from. 98% rejection rate for the RO membrane means the membrane can filter out 98% of the TDS in the water, it does not mean it rejects 98% of the water going in.. Meaning water with 100TDS going in will have 2TDS going out. The amount of waste water an RODI produces depends on the restrictor valve on the waste water line, and its usually a 1:4 ratio. So if you make 100gal a day you produces 400 gal of waste water.
So that was originally how I thought it worked, until I was working with a water company to clean up the water coming into the house and they told me they other way. It would be really nice If it was 4:1 or similar to that, cause that would only be 800-1000 gallons.
About 75 psi. Running a booster pump
