Nanofiltration as pretreatment for scale prevention in seawater reverse osmosis desalination

Desalination and Water Treatment

Volumn 36, Issue 1-3, 2011, Pages 310-318

  Llenas, Laia ^a,b   Martínez Lladó, Xavier ^a   Yaroshchuk, Andriy ^b   Rovira, Miquel ^a,b   de Pablo, Joan ^a,b  

^a FUNDACIÓ CTM CENTRE TECNOLÒGIC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Atomic force microscopy; Desalination; Nanofiltration; Scale prevention

Indexed keywords

EID: 83155176440     PISSN: 19443994     EISSN: 19443986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5004/dwt.2011.2767     Document Type: Article

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