Bench-scale evaluation of seawater desalination by reverse osmosis

Desalination

Volumn 250, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 490-499

  Ladner, David A ^a   Subramani, Arun ^b   Kumar, Manish ^a   Adham, Samer S ^c   Clark, Mark M ^d  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b MWH AMERICAS INC   (United States)

^c ConocoPhillips ^*  (Qatar)

^d Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Concentration polarization; Desalination; Fouling; Reverse osmosis; Seawater

Indexed keywords

BENCH-SCALE TEST; COMPLEX GEOMETRIES; CONCENTRATION POLARIZATION; FLOW REGIMES; FLUX DECLINE; FLUX VARIATION; MEMBRANE COMPACTION; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; RIGOROUS MODELING; SALT CONCENTRATION; SEAWATER DESALINATION; SEAWATER REVERSE OSMOSIS; SEAWATER SAMPLES;

CAPILLARITY; COMPACTION; DESALINATION; EXPERIMENTS; FOULING; POLARIZATION; PRESSURE EFFECTS; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SEAWATER EFFECTS; WATER FILTRATION;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS);

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DESALINATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOULING; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MEMBRANE; OSMOSIS; POLARIZATION; SEAWATER;

EID: 72149098400     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2009.06.072     Document Type: Article

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