Hardness, COD and turbidity removals from produced water by electrocoagulation pretreatment prior to reverse osmosis membranes

Desalination

Volumn 344, Issue , 2014, Pages 454-462

  Zhao, Shan ^a,b   Huang, Guohe ^a,b   Cheng, Guanhui ^b   Wang, Yafei ^c   Fu, Haiyan ^a  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

^c NORTH CHINA ELECTRIC POWER UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Electrocoagulation; Hardness removal; Pretreatment; Produced water; Response surface method; Reverse Osmosis

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; COAGULATION; HARDNESS; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TURBIDITY;

ELECTRO COAGULATIONS; HARDNESS REMOVAL; PRE-TREATMENT; PRODUCED WATER; RESPONSE SURFACE METHOD;

WATER CONSERVATION;

CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; COAGULATION; HARDNESS; MEMBRANE; OSMOSIS; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; TURBIDITY; WATER TREATMENT;

EID: 84899821311     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2014.04.014     Document Type: Article

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