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The purpose of this research was to visualize the fouling process of a flat-sheet polymeric membrane into a flow cell, using particles to study their deposition onto the membrane surface. This set of experiments was analyzed from an imagistic point of view, designing for this purpose a measuring installation where hydrodynamic surface evaluation was carried out with an image processing concerning to the reverse osmosis operation. To ensure the measurements accuracy, calculations, logical approximation, and comparisons were made with existing and verified models, revealing that the differences were insignificant.