The MSF: Enough is enough

Desalination and Water Treatment

Volumn 22, Issue 1-3, 2010, Pages 193-203

  Darwish, M A ^a   Al Awadhi, Fatimah M ^a   Abdul Raheem, Mahmoud Y ^a  

^a Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Energy consumption; Energy cost; MSF; Nano fi ltration; SWRO

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649371167     PISSN: 19443994     EISSN: 19443986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5004/dwt.2010.1737     Document Type: Article

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