Economic assessment of an integrated membrane system for secondary effluent polishing for unrestricted reuse

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 219-236

  Bick, Amos ^a   Gillerman, Leonid ^b   Manor, Yossi ^c   Oron, Gideon ^b,d  

^a SHENKAR COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND DESIGN   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d JERUSALEM COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING   (Israel)

Author keywords

Effluent; Management modeling; Membranes; Optimization; Renovation; Reverse osmosis

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; EFFLUENT; FILTRATION; IRRIGATION; MEMBRANE; MODELING; OPTIMIZATION; WATER TREATMENT;

EID: 84878690845     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/w4010219     Document Type: Article

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