Dispersed air flotation as a pretreatment process for seawater desalination

Water Science and Technology: Water Supply

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 431-438

  Altaher, Hossam ^a   ElQada, Emad ^a   Omar, Waid ^a  

^a YANBU INDUSTRIAL COLLEGE   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Aeration; Desalination; Diffusers; Flow rate; Mass transfer coefficient; Pretreatment

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; AIR; DESALINATION; DIFFUSERS (OPTICAL); FLOTATION; FLOW RATE; OXYGEN; SEAWATER; WATER AERATION;

DIFFERENT OPERATING CONDITIONS; OVERALL MASS TRANSFER COEFFICIENT; OXYGEN ABSORPTION; OXYGEN CONCENTRATIONS; PRE-TREATMENT; PRETREATMENT PROCESS; SEAWATER DESALINATION; SEAWATER TEMPERATURE;

MASS TRANSFER;

OXYGEN; SEA WATER;

ACTIVATION ENERGY; AERATION; DISPERSION; MASS TRANSFER; OSMOSIS; OXYGEN; SEAWATER; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; DESALINATION; FLOW RATE; REVERSE OSMOSIS; WATER TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84864955581     PISSN: 16069749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/ws.2012.011     Document Type: Article

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