Mineral scale monitoring for reverse osmosis desalination via real-time membrane surface image analysis

Desalination

Volumn 273, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 64-71

  Bartman, Alex R ^a   Lyster, Eric ^a   Rallo, Robert ^b   Christofides, Panagiotis D ^a   Cohen, Yoram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

Author keywords

Feed flow reversal; Image analysis; Mineral scaling; Process control; Reverse osmosis

Indexed keywords

CLEANING PROTOCOLS; CONSECUTIVE IMAGES; CROSSFLOW VELOCITIES; DIRECT OBSERVATION; EARLY DETECTION; EX SITU; FEED FLOWS; MEMBRANE DAMAGE; MEMBRANE PLANTS; MEMBRANE SCALING; MEMBRANE SURFACE; MINERAL SALTS; MINERAL SCALE; MINERAL SCALE FORMATION; MINERAL SCALING; MONITORING APPROACH; ONLINE IMAGE ANALYSIS; OPERATING CONDITION; PERMEATE FLUX; QUANTITATIVE INFORMATION; REAL TIME ANALYSIS; REVERSE OSMOSIS DESALINATION; SURFACE SCALING; SYSTEM OPERATOR; SYSTEM PRODUCTIVITY; TRANSMEMBRANE PRESSURES;

CRYSTAL GROWTH; DAMAGE DETECTION; DESALINATION; DISSOLUTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MINERALS; OSMOSIS MEMBRANES; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SCALE (DEPOSITS); SILICATE MINERALS; WATER FILTRATION;

PROCESS CONTROL;

DESALINATION; DISSOLUTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEMBRANE; OSMOSIS;

EID: 79953062303     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2010.10.021     Document Type: Article

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