Minimization of energy consumption for a two-pass membrane desalination: Effect of energy recovery, membrane rejection and retentate recycling

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 339, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 126-137

  Zhu, Aihua ^a   Christofides, Panagiotis D ^a   Cohen, Yoram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Membrane desalting; Nanofiltration; Reverse osmosis; Thermodynamic restriction; Two pass membrane desalination

Indexed keywords

ENERGY CONSUMPTION; ENERGY OPTIMIZATION; ENERGY RECOVERY; ENERGY RECOVERY EFFICIENCY; FEASIBLE SOLUTION; ION REJECTION; MEMBRANE DESALINATION; MEMBRANE REJECTION; OPTIMAL RECOVERY; OPTIMAL STATE; OPTIMIZATION SOLUTION; PROCESS CONFIGURATION; PRODUCT RECOVERY; RETENTATE; SALT REJECTIONS; SINGLE STAGE; SPECIFIC ENERGY CONSUMPTION; SUBDOMAIN; TWO-PASS MEMBRANE DESALINATION; WATER RECOVERY;

BORON; BORON COMPOUNDS; DESALINATION; NANOFILTRATION; OPTIMIZATION; RECOVERY; RECYCLING; REVERSE OSMOSIS; THERMODYNAMICS; WATER FILTRATION;

NANOFILTRATION MEMBRANES;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESALINATION; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY RECOVERY; MEMBRANE FILTER; NANOFILTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; RECYCLING; REVERSE OSMOSIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 67649262030     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2009.04.039     Document Type: Article

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