Vacuum membrane distillation for purifying waters containing arsenic

Desalination

Volumn 323, Issue , 2013, Pages 17-21

  Criscuoli, Alessandra ^a   Bafaro, Patrizia ^b   Drioli, Enrico ^a,b  

^a Institute on Membrane Technology (ITM)   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Arsenic contaminated water; Arsenic rejection; Trivalent and pentavalent arsenic; Vacuum membrane distillation

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC CONCENTRATION; CONTAMINATED WATER; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; FEED TEMPERATURE; MEMBRANE AREA; OPERATING TEMPERATURE; VACUUM MEMBRANE DISTILLATION; VACUUM PRESSURE;

ARSENIC; CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION; VACUUM; WATER POLLUTION; WATER TREATMENT;

CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT);

ARSENIC; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DETECTION METHOD; DISTILLATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MEMBRANE; PURIFICATION; WATER TREATMENT;

EID: 84880325145     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2012.08.004     Document Type: Article

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