人类发现渗透现象至今已有二百多年的历史了。但正式提出反渗透用于盐水淡化的是1953年美国的里德(C·E·Reid)等人,当时他们开始对醋酸纤维素膜的反渗透现象进行研究,并建议美国内政部把反渗透技术的研究纳入国家计划。里德所在的佛罗里达大学实验小组, It has been more than two hundred years since the discovery of human infiltration. However, it was officially proposed that reverse osmosis should be used for salt water desalination by E. Reid et al. In the United States in 1953 when they started to study the reverse osmosis of cellulose acetate membrane and suggested that the U.S. Department of the Interior reverse osmosis Technology research into national plans. Reid where the University of Florida experimental group,