Sustainable operation of membrane distillation for enhancement of mineral recovery from hypersaline solutions

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 454, Issue , 2014, Pages 426-435

  Hickenbottom, Kerri L ^a   Cath, Tzahi Y ^a  

^a Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Desalination; Evaporation pond; Hypersaline brine; Membrane cleaning; Membrane distillation; Scaling

Indexed keywords

DESALINATION TECHNOLOGIES; HYPERSALINE; MEMBRANE CLEANING; MEMBRANE DISTILLATION; PRECIPITATION OF SALTS; SCALING; SUSTAINABLE OPERATIONS; TOTAL DISSOLVED SOLIDS;

BRINES; CHEMICAL CLEANING; DEIONIZED WATER; DESALINATION; EVAPORATION; EXPERIMENTS; LAKES; MINERALS; WATER FILTRATION;

MEMBRANES;

INORGANIC SALT; LAKE WATER; MINERAL; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DESALINATION; DISSOLUTION; DISTILLATION; EVAPORATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; IONIZATION; MEMBRANE; MEMBRANE DISTILLATION; MICROSCOPY; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALT LAKE; SOLID; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; SURFACE PROPERTY; WATER SUPPLY; WATER TRANSPORT;

EID: 84892464488     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: 18733123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2013.12.043     Document Type: Article

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