Life-cycle cost analysis of adsorption cycles for desalination

Desalination and Water Treatment

Volumn 20, Issue 1-3, 2010, Pages 1-10

  Thu, Kyaw ^a   Chakraborty, A ^b   Saha, B B ^a   Chun, Won Gee ^c   Ng, K C ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c Jeju National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Adsorption; Desalination; Economic analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958008822     PISSN: 19443994     EISSN: 19443986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5004/dwt.2010.1187     Document Type: Article

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