The relation between the RO fouling membrane and the feed water quality and the pretreatment in Djerba Island plant

Desalination

Volumn 286, Issue , 2012, Pages 412-416

  Farhat, Soumaya ^a   Kamel, Fethi ^b   Jedoui, Younes ^a   Kallel, Monem ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GABES   (Tunisia)

^b Direction Production Sud Est ^*  (Tunisia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SFAX   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Autopsy; Feed water quality; Membrane fouling; Reverse osmosis; Sulfuric water

Indexed keywords

AEROBIC PROCESS; ALUMINUM PHOSPHATES; ANAEROBIC PROCESS; ANTISCALANT; AUTOPSY; FEED WATER; FOULING MEMBRANES; FOULING PHENOMENA; ITS EFFICIENCIES; MEMBRANE AUTOPSIES; OPERATING PRESSURE; OPERATION PARAMETERS; PHOSPHONATES; PRE-TREATMENT; PRETREATMENT PROCESS; REVERSE OSMOSIS SYSTEMS;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; MEMBRANE FOULING; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SILICA; WATER QUALITY;

MEMBRANES;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; FOULING; MEMBRANE; OSMOSIS; OXIC CONDITIONS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WATER QUALITY; WATER TREATMENT;

DJERBA; MEDENINE; TUNISIA;

EID: 84856053847     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2011.11.058     Document Type: Article

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