Influence of colloidal fouling and feed water recovery on salt rejection of RO and NF membranes

Desalination

Volumn 160, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-12

  Lee, Sangyoup ^a   Cho, Jaeweon ^a   Elimelech, Menachem ^b  

^a Department of Environ Science/Eng ^*  (South Korea)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Colloidal fouling; Concentration factor; Fouling; NF; Permeate flux; Recovery; RO; Salt rejection

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDS; FOULING; OSMOSIS MEMBRANES; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SALTS; THIN FILMS; WATER;

COLLOIDAL FOULING; FEED WATER RECOVERY;

DESALINATION;

DRINKING WATER; FOULING; MEMBRANE; REVERSE OSMOSIS; WATER TREATMENT;

EID: 0942269492     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0011-9164(04)90013-6     Document Type: Article

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