Effects of feed water temperature on separation performance and organic fouling of brackish water RO membranes

Desalination

Volumn 239, Issue 1-3, 2009, Pages 346-359

  Jin, Xue ^a   Jawor, Anna ^a   Kim, Suhan ^a   Hoek, Eric M V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brackish water; Desalination; Fouling; Humic acid; Reverse osmosis

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BOILERS; DESALINATION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; FOULING; MEMBRANE FOULING; MEMBRANES; ORGANIC ACIDS; REVERSE OSMOSIS; TEMPERATURE; WATER; WATER FILTRATION;

BRACKISH WATER; BRACKISH WATER DESALINATIONS; FEED WATER TEMPERATURES; HUMIC ACID; INCREASING TEMPERATURES; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; REDUCE ENERGY CONSUMPTION; SPECIFIC CAKE RESISTANCES;

WATER TREATMENT;

BRACKISH WATER; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DESALINATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOULING; HUMIC ACID; MEMBRANE; OSMOSIS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PERMEABILITY; SEPARATION; WATER TEMPERATURE;

EID: 59649126695     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2008.03.026     Document Type: Article

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