Ultrafiltration as a pretreatment for seawater desalination: A review

Membrane Water Treatment

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 15-29

  Lau, W J ^a   Goh, P S ^a   Ismail, A F ^a   Lai, S O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITI TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Desalination; Fouling; Integrated membrane system; Pretreatment; Reverse osmosis; Seawater; Ultrafiltration

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894058104     PISSN: 20058624     EISSN: 20927037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12989/mwt.2014.5.1.015     Document Type: Article

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