Impact of intermediate concentrate softening on feed water recovery of reverse osmosis process during treatment of mining contaminated groundwater

Separation and Purification Technology

Volumn 88, Issue , 2012, Pages 138-145

  Subramani, Arun ^a   Cryer, Edwin ^b   Liu, Li ^a   Lehman, Stewart ^a   Ning, Robert Y ^c   Jacangelo, Joseph G ^a,d  

^a MWH AMERICAS INC   (United States)

^b MWH   (United States)

^c King Lee Technologies   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcium sulfate scaling; Chemical demineralization; High recovery reverse osmosis; Precipitation softening; Silica polymerization

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM SULFATE; CHEMICAL SOFTENING; CONTAMINATED GROUNDWATER; EFFICIENT TREATMENT; ELECTROCOAGULATION; FEED WATER; HIGH CONCENTRATION; INDUSTRIAL FACILITIES; MERCURY AND SELENIUM; NATURAL CONDITIONS; RO CONCENTRATE; RO PROCESS; WASTE DUMPS; WATER QUALITY ISSUES;

AQUIFERS; COAGULATION; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; MERCURY (METAL); RECOVERY; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SELENIUM; SILICA; WATER QUALITY;

SECONDARY RECOVERY;

EID: 84863256859     PISSN: 13835866     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seppur.2011.12.010     Document Type: Article

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