Rapid field assessment of RO desalination of brackish agricultural drainage water

Water Research

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2649-2660

  Thompson, John ^a   Rahardianto, Anditya ^a   Gu, Han ^a   Uchymiak, Michal ^a   Bartman, Alex ^a   Hedrick, Marcos ^b   Lara, David ^c   Cooper, Jim ^c   Faria, Jose ^c   Christofides, Panagiotis D ^a   Cohen, Yoram ^a  

^a Engineering IV   (United States)

^b not available   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Agricultural drainage water; Brackish water; Desalination; Mineral scaling; Reverse osmosis

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; BOILERS; MICROFILTRATION; MINERALS; WATER FILTRATION; WATER QUALITY;

AGRICULTURAL DRAINAGE WATER; ANTISCALANT; BRACKISH WATER; DIRECT OBSERVATIONS; FEED WATER; FIELD ASSESSMENT; FLUX DECLINE; MINERAL SCALING; RO DESALINATION; SCALE-FREE;

DESALINATION;

BRACKISH WATER; DESALINATION; DRAINAGE WATER; FIELD SURVEY; FILTRATION; MEMBRANE; MINERAL; OSMOSIS; WATER QUALITY;

AGRICULTURAL WASTE; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; DESALINATION; FIELD STUDY; FILTRATION; MINERAL SCALING; MONITOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SURFACE PROPERTY; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; TURBIDITY; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84876123272     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2013.02.013     Document Type: Article

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