Evaluation of chemically-enhanced seeded precipitation of RO concentrate for high recovery desalting of high salinity brackish water

Desalination

Volumn 317, Issue , 2013, Pages 116-126

  McCool, Brian C ^a   Rahardianto, Anditya ^a   Faria, Jose I ^b   Cohen, Yoram ^a  

^a Engineering IV   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Antiscalant removal; Brackish water desalination; Field demonstration; RO concentrate treatment; Seeded gypsum precipitation

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL DRAINAGE; ANTISCALANT; BRACKISH WATER DESALINATIONS; GYPSUM PRECIPITATION; PROCESS SIMULATIONS; RO CONCENTRATE; SEEDED PRECIPITATION; WATER DESALINATION;

GYPSUM; LASERS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RECOVERY; SECONDARY RECOVERY; WATER FILTRATION;

DESALINATION;

BRACKISH WATER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DESALINATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FIELD METHOD; OSMOSIS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); SUPERSATURATION; WASTE DISPOSAL;

EID: 84876319849     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2013.01.010     Document Type: Article

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