Coal seam gas produced water treatment by ultrafiltration, reverse osmosis and multi-effect distillation: A pilot study

Separation and Purification Technology

Volumn 146, Issue , 2015, Pages 94-100

  Nghiem, Long D ^a   Elters, Christian ^a   Simon, Alexander ^a   Tatsuya, Taguchi ^b   Price, William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b Sasakura Engineering Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brine minimization; Coal seam gas (CSG) produced water; Multi effect distillation (MED); Reverse osmosis (RO); Scaling

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; CHEMICAL CLEANING; COAL; COAL BED METHANE; COAL DEPOSITS; DEPOSITION; DISTILLATION; GLASS; MINERALS; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SODIUM BICARBONATE; ULTRAFILTRATION;

CONTINUOUS OPERATION; MASS BALANCE ANALYSIS; MINERAL DEPOSITIONS; MINERAL PRECIPITATION; MULTIEFFECT DISTILLATION; PRODUCED WATER; PRODUCED WATER TREATMENTS; SCALING;

WATER TREATMENT;

EID: 84926176403     PISSN: 13835866     EISSN: 18733794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seppur.2015.03.022     Document Type: Article

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