Application of forward osmosis in pretreatment of seawater for small reverse osmosis desalination units

Desalination and Water Treatment

Volumn 5, Issue 1-3, 2009, Pages 183-191

  Bamaga, O A ^a,b   Yokochi, A ^b   Beaudry, E G ^c  

^a SANA A UNIVERSITY   (Yemen)

^b Oregon State University   (United States)

^c Hydration Technologies Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomous RO desalination units; Forward osmosis; Membrane pretreatment; Seawater pretreatment

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954194078     PISSN: 19443994     EISSN: 19443986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5004/dwt.2009.574     Document Type: Article

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