Chemical impacts from seawater desalination plants - A case study of the northern Red Sea

Desalination

Volumn 152, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 133-140

  Hoepner, Thomas ^a   Lattemann, Sabine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antiscalants; Chlorine; Copper; Red Sea

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; SEAWATER; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

DESALINATION PLANTS;

DESALINATION;

CHLORINE; COPPER; DISTILLATION; MEMBRANE; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SEA WATER; WATER RESOURCE; WATER SUPPLY; WATER TREATMENT;

DESALINATION; SEAWATER; WATER RESOURCE; WATER SUPPLY; WATER TREATMENT;

EGYPT; ISRAEL; JORDAN; RED SEA; SAUDI ARABIA; SUDAN;

EID: 0037512535     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0011-9164(02)01056-1     Document Type: Article

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