Water desalination and challenges: The Middle East perspective: A review

Desalination and Water Treatment

Volumn 51, Issue 10-12, 2013, Pages 2030-2040

  Nair, Manjula ^a   Kumar, Dinesh ^b  

^a American College of Dubai   (United Arab Emirates)

^b BANASTHALI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Corrosion; Desalination; Electrodialysis; Membrane fouling; Multieffect distillation; Multistage flash distillation; Nanofiltration; Pre treatment; Reverse osmosis; Scaling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875763620     PISSN: 19443994     EISSN: 19443986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19443994.2013.734483     Document Type: Review

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