Will calcium carbonate really scale in seawater reverse osmosis?

Desalination and Water Treatment

Volumn 5, Issue 1-3, 2009, Pages 146-152

  Waly, Tarek ^a,b   Saleh, Saleh ^a   Kennedy, Maria D ^a   Witkamp, Geert Jan ^c   Amy, Gary ^a,b   Schippers, Jan C ^a  

^a UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acid; Antiscalant; Calcite; Induction time; Membrane; Scaling

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954189338     PISSN: 19443994     EISSN: 19443986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5004/dwt.2009.577     Document Type: Article

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