Performance of reverse osmosis (RO) for water recovery from permeates of membrane bio-reactor (MBR)

Desalination and Water Treatment

Volumn 52, Issue 4-6, 2014, Pages 600-611

  Pandey, Santosh Raj ^a   Jegatheesan, Veeriah ^a   Baskaran, Kanagaratnam ^a   Shu, Li ^a   Muthukumaran, Shobha ^b  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agricultural wastewater; Brackish water reverse osmosis; Membrane bio reactor; Water recovery

Indexed keywords

BIOREACTOR; CELLULOSE; MEMBRANE; OSMOSIS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PERMEABILITY; PRESSURE EFFECT; WATER QUALITY; WATER TREATMENT;

EID: 84893862676     PISSN: 19443994     EISSN: 19443986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19443994.2013.826400     Document Type: Article

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