Optimum nanofi ltration membrane arrangements in seawater pretreatment - part-I

Desalination and Water Treatment

Volumn 28, Issue 1-3, 2011, Pages 270-286

  Abdullatef, Abou Elfetouh ^a   Farooque, Mohammed ^a   Al Otaibi, Gazzai ^a   Kither, Mohammed ^a   Al Khamis, Salah ^a  

^a SALINE WATER CONVERSION CORPORATION   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Nanofiltration; NF arrangements; Optimization; Pretreatment; Seawater; SWRO

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955955737     PISSN: 19443994     EISSN: 19443986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5004/dwt.2011.1243     Document Type: Article

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