Treatment of saline aqueous solutions using direct contact membrane distillation

Desalination and Water Treatment

Volumn 32, Issue 1-3, 2011, Pages 234-241

  Nghiem, Long D ^a   Hildinger, Florian ^a   Hai, Faisal I ^a   Cath, Tzahi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Direct contact membrane distillation (DCMD); Organic fouling; RO concentrate; Saline solution; Scaling

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052874496     PISSN: 19443994     EISSN: 19443986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5004/dwt.2011.2705     Document Type: Article

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