Review of seawater natural organic matter fouling and reverse osmosis transport modeling for seawater reverse osmosis desalination

Desalination and Water Treatment

Volumn 15, Issue 1-3, 2010, Pages 92-107

  Moonkhum, Monruedee ^a   Lee, Young Geun ^a   Lee, Yun Seok ^a   Kim, Joon Ha ^a,b,c  

^a Department of Environmental Science and Engineering ^*  (South Korea)

^b Center for Seawater Desalination Plant   (South Korea)

^c Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Fouling mechanism; Membrane transport models; Natural organic matter (NOM); Seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO)

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954234483     PISSN: 19443994     EISSN: 19443986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5004/dwt.2010.1672     Document Type: Article

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