Submerged hollow fiber ultrafiltration as seawater pretreatment in the logic of integrated membrane desalination systems

Desalination

Volumn 269, Issue 1-3, 2011, Pages 128-135

  Di Profio, Gianluca ^a,b   Ji, Xiaoshen ^b   Curcio, Efrem ^b   Drioli, Enrico ^a,b,c  

^a INSTITUTE ON MEMBRANE TECHNOLOGY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^c Hanyang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Hollow fiber membranes; Integrated membrane systems; Seawater desalination; Seawater pretreatment; Submerged ultrafiltration

Indexed keywords

HOLLOW FIBER MEMBRANES; MEMBRANE SYSTEM; SEAWATER DESALINATION; SEAWATER PRETREATMENT; SUBMERGED ULTRAFILTRATION;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; DESALINATION; FIBERS; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SEAWATER; ULTRAFILTRATION; WATER FILTRATION;

MEMBRANES;

DESALINATION; MEMBRANE; OPTIMIZATION; OSMOSIS; SEAWATER; ULTRAFILTRATION; WATER TREATMENT;

EID: 79551687892     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2010.10.051     Document Type: Article

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