State-of-the-art of reverse osmosis desalination pretreatment

Desalination

Volumn 356, Issue , 2015, Pages 129-139

  Henthorne, Lisa ^a   Boysen, Buddy ^a  

^a Water Standard ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Desalination; Flotation; Membrane filtration; Pretreatment; Reverse osmosis

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; DESALINATION; FLOTATION; FOULING; MICROFILTRATION;

FOULING MECHANISMS; FOULING RESISTANCE; MEMBRANE FILTRATIONS; PRE-TREATMENT; PRE-TREATMENT SOLUTIONS; PRETREATMENT TECHNOLOGY; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; REVERSE OSMOSIS DESALINATION;

REVERSE OSMOSIS;

BIOFOULING; DESALINATION; FOULING; MEMBRANE; OSMOSIS; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; WATER TREATMENT;

EID: 84916620458     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2014.10.039     Document Type: Review

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