Opportunities to reach economic sustainability in forward osmosis-reverse osmosis hybrids for seawater desalination

Desalination

Volumn 363, Issue , 2015, Pages 26-36

  Blandin, Gaetan ^a,b   Verliefde, Arne R D ^b   Tang, Chuyang Y ^c   Le Clech, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Economics; Forward osmosis; Hydraulic pressure; Permeation flux; Pressure assisted osmosis

Indexed keywords

COSTS; DESALINATION; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; INVESTMENTS; PERMEATION; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SEAWATER; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

COMMERCIAL MEMBRANES; ECONOMIC EVALUATIONS; ECONOMIC SUSTAINABILITY; FORWARD OSMOSIS; HYDRAULIC PRESSURE; PERMEATION FLUXES; SEAWATER DESALINATION; STRUCTURAL PARAMETER;

OSMOSIS MEMBRANES;

EID: 84925366809     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2014.12.011     Document Type: Article

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