Considerations for selection of seawater filtration pretreatment system

Desalination

Volumn 261, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 354-364

  Voutchkov, Nikolay ^a  

^a Water Globe Consulting LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Biofouling; Desalination; Membranes; Microfiltration; Pretreatment; Reverse osmosis; Seawater; SWRO; Ultrafiltration

Indexed keywords

BIOFOULING; DESALINATION; FILTRATION; MEMBRANE TECHNOLOGY; MEMBRANES; MICROFILTRATION; OSMOSIS MEMBRANES; SEAWATER; ULTRAFILTRATION;

GRANULAR MEDIA FILTRATION; PRE-TREATMENT; PRETREATMENT TECHNOLOGY; SEAWATER DESALINATION; SEAWATER PRETREATMENT; SEAWATER REVERSE OSMOSIS; SWRO; ULTRAFILTRATION MEMBRANE SYSTEMS;

REVERSE OSMOSIS;

BIOFOULING; DESALINATION; GRANULAR MEDIUM; MEMBRANE; SEAWATER; ULTRAFILTRATION;

EID: 78049442201     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2010.07.002     Document Type: Article

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