Towards new opportunities for reuse, recycling and disposal of used reverse osmosis membranes

Desalination

Volumn 299, Issue , 2012, Pages 103-112

  Lawler, Will ^a   Bradford Hartke, Zenah ^a   Cran, Marlene J ^b   Duke, Mikel ^b   Leslie, Greg ^a   Ladewig, Bradley P ^c,d   Le Clech, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF POLYMER RESEARCH DRESDEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Disposal; Life cycle assessment; Product stewardship; Recycle; Reuse; Reverse osmosis membrane

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL CONVERSIONS; CRITICAL CHALLENGES; DESALINATION PLANT; ELECTRONIC WASTE; ENERGY RECOVERY; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); MAINTENANCE PRACTICES; PRODUCT STEWARDSHIP; RECYCLE; REUSE; REUSE AND RECYCLING; RO MEMBRANE;

DESALINATION; INCINERATION; LIFE CYCLE; MEMBRANE TECHNOLOGY; RECYCLING; ULTRAFILTRATION; WASTE DISPOSAL; WATER FILTRATION;

REVERSE OSMOSIS;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; MEMBRANE; OSMOSIS; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; RECYCLING; WASTE DISPOSAL;

EID: 84862840740     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2012.05.030     Document Type: Article

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