Chapter 4 Desalination: Reverse Osmosis and Membrane Distillation

Sustainability Science and Engineering

Volumn 2, Issue C, 2010, Pages 65-93

  Gullinkala, Tilak ^a   Digman, Brett ^a   Gorey, Colleen ^a   Hausman, Richard ^a   Escobar, Isabel C ^a  

^a The University of Toledo   (United States)

Author keywords

biofouling; fouling; inorganic scaling; membrane cleaning; membrane distillation; membrane synthesis; organic fouling; reverse osmosis

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957078250     PISSN: 18712711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1871-2711(09)00204-9     Document Type: Review

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