Ultrafiltration pretreatment to reverse osmosis for seawater desalination — three years field experience in the Wangtan Datang power plant

Desalination and Water Treatment

Volumn 10, Issue 1-3, 2009, Pages 1-20

  Busch, Markus ^a   Chu, Robert ^b   Kolbe, Udo ^c   Meng, QinQin ^d   Li, SiJi ^d  

^a Dow Deutschland GmbH   (Germany)

^b Building C   (China)

^c Dow Deutschland Anlagen GmbH   (Germany)

^d NONE   (China)

Author keywords

Desalination; Dual membrane system; Integrated membrane system; Reverse osmosis; Seawater; Ultrafiltration

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954222563     PISSN: 19443994     EISSN: 19443986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5004/dwt.2009.702     Document Type: Article

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