Energy-efficient reverse osmosis desalination process

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 473, Issue , 2015, Pages 177-188

  Chong, Tzyy Haur ^a,b   Loo, Siew Leng ^a,b   Krantz, William B ^b,c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

Desalination; Energy efficient; Multistage processing; Process analysis; Reverse osmosis

Indexed keywords

DESALINATION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; POTENTIAL ENERGY; RECYCLING; REVERSE OSMOSIS;

ENERGY EFFICIENT; ENERGY RECOVERY DEVICES; MULTI-STAGE PROCESSING; PRESSURE DIFFERENTIAL; PRESSURE-RETARDED OSMOSIS; PROCESS ANALYSIS; REVERSE OSMOSIS DESALINATION; SPECIFIC ENERGY CONSUMPTION;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; COUNTERCURRENT MEMBRANE CASCADE WITH RECYCLE; DESALINATION; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; ENERGY EFFICIENT REVERSE OSMOSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEMBRANE; NANOFILTRATION; OSMOTIC POTENTIAL; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SINGLE STAGE REVERSE OSMOSIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84907693575     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: 18733123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2014.09.005     Document Type: Article

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