A short review on reverse osmosis pretreatment technologies

Desalination

Volumn 354, Issue , 2014, Pages 30-38

  Jamaly, S ^a   Darwish, N N ^a   Ahmed, I ^a   Hasan, S W ^a  

^a KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Cost; Desalination; Fouling; Pretreatment; Reverse osmosis

Indexed keywords

DESALINATION; FOULING; REVERSE OSMOSIS;

PRE-TREATMENT; REVERSE OSMOSIS PRE-TREATMENT;

COSTS;

COST; DESALINATION; FOULING; SEAWATER; ULTRAFILTRATION;

EID: 84907795549     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2014.09.017     Document Type: Review

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