Water reuse: >90% water yield in MBR/RO through concentrate recycling and CO2 addition as scaling control

Water Research

Volumn 45, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 6141-6151

  Joss, Adriano ^a   Baenninger, Claudia ^a   Foa, Paolo ^b   Koepke, Stephan ^a   Krauss, Martin ^a,e   McArdell, Christa S ^a   Rottermann, Karin ^a   Wei, Yuansong ^c   Zapata, Ana ^d   Siegrist, Hansruedi ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^d PLATAFORMA SOLAR DE ALMERÍA CIEMAT   (Spain)

^e HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Inorganic precipitation; Micropollutants; Municipal wastewater; Reverse osmosis; Water reuse

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL WATER TREATMENT; BIOREACTORS; CALCITE; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CARBON DIOXIDE; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; EFFLUENTS; MEMBRANE FOULING; OZONE WATER TREATMENT; OZONIZATION; SEWAGE; SILICA; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER FILTRATION; WATER QUALITY; WATER RECYCLING;

BIOLOGICAL UNITS; HIGH WATER; INORGANIC PRECIPITATION; MICROPOLLUTANTS; MUNICIPAL WASTEWATERS; REVERSE OSMOSIS MEMBRANE; SCALING CONTROL; SCALINGS; WATER REUSE; WATER YIELD;

REVERSE OSMOSIS;

4,4' ISOPROPYLIDENEDIPHENOL; ATENOLOL; BENZOTRIAZOLE DERIVATIVE; CALCIUM PHOSPHATE; CARBAMAZEPINE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLARITHROMYCIN; DICLOFENAC; IBUPROFEN; METOPROLOL; NAPROXEN; PARACETAMOL; PRIMIDONE; PROPRANOLOL; SOTALOL; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; SULFAPYRIDINE; SULFATE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

AERATION; BIOREACTOR; CARBON DIOXIDE; DISCHARGE; DOMESTIC WASTE; DRUG; MEMBRANE; MINERAL; OSMOSIS; OZONE; PHOSPHATE; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); RECYCLING; SALINITY; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SILICA; ULTRAFILTRATION; WASTEWATER; WATER YIELD;

AERATION; ARTICLE; BIOREACTOR; MEMBRANE REACTOR; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; OZONATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALINITY; SCALE UP; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; WASTE WATER RECYCLING; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 80054039005     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2011.09.011     Document Type: Article

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