The Critical Need for Increased Selectivity, Not Increased Water Permeability, for Desalination Membranes

Environmental Science and Technology Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 112-120

  Werber, Jay R ^a   Deshmukh, Akshay ^a   Elimelech, Menachem ^a,b  

^a Yale University   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MEMBRANES; DESALINATION; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT;

DESALINATION MEMBRANES; DESIGN STRATEGIES; MEMBRANE MATERIAL; MEMBRANE SELECTIVITY; SCALE MODELING STUDY; THIN-FILM COMPOSITE MEMBRANE; WATER PERMEABILITY; WATER TREATMENT PROCESS;

MEMBRANES;

EID: 85019538514     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23288930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.estlett.6b00050     Document Type: Review

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