A review on energy consumption of desalination processes

Desalination and Water Treatment

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1526-1541

  Ghalavand, Younes ^a   Hatamipour, Mohammad Sadegh ^a   Rahimi, Amir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ISFAHAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Desalination processes; Energy consumption; Gain output ratio; Performance ratio

Indexed keywords

EID: 84927176189     PISSN: 19443994     EISSN: 19443986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19443994.2014.892837     Document Type: Article

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