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Reverse osmosis desalination: Water sources, technology, and today's challenges
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Key parameters of an RO process and process modifications due to feed water characteristics are brought to light by a direct comparison of seawater and brackish water RO systems.About:
This article is published in Water Research.The article was published on 2009-05-01. It has received 2665 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Reverse osmosis plant & Desalination.read more
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A Review: Desalination by Forward Osmosis
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors have discussed the usage of different types of membranes for FO desalination application and their performances enhancement by suitable modification has been discussed, as well as a significant amount of work has been carried out to produce high-performance FO membrane for Desalination.
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Chemical treatment technologies for waste-water recycling—an overview
TL;DR: In this paper, different types of water treatment and recycling techniques have been discussed in terms of their basic principles, applications, costs, maintenance and suitability, and a brief guideline for the selection of the appropriate technologies for specific applications has been evaluated.
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Application and modification of poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) membranes – A review
Guodong Kang,Yiming Cao +1 more
TL;DR: An overview of recent progress on the application and modification of polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) membranes can be found in this article, where two major problems of PVDF membranes in applications, namely membrane fouling and membrane wetting, are comprehensively reviewed.
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Water desalination via capacitive deionization : What is it and what can we expect from it?
TL;DR: Capacitive deionization (CDI) is an emerging technology for the facile removal of charged ionic species from aqueous solutions, and is currently being widely explored for water desalination applications.
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Technical review and evaluation of the economics of water desalination: Current and future challenges for better water supply sustainability
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a cost analysis of the reverse osmosis process and the main parameters influencing the total water cost produced by different desalination technologies, including capital and operating costs, as well as local incentives or subsidies.
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Pilot study of hybrid systems
TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the reverse osmosis (RO) process performance in an MSF RO hybrid system and found that an increase of up to 49% in the RO product water recovery was realized when data from before and after hybridization were compared.
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Application of flotation as a pretreatment process during desalination
TL;DR: In this article, a review of this interesting area with focus on sustainable development is presented, where various techniques have been proposed for pretreatment, even other membranes such as ultrafiltration.
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Las Palmas III — the success story of brine staging
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the performance of the Jinamar plant after the major overhauls carried out to improving water quality and production performance and reducing energy costing, the Las Palmas III water intake has, because of its surface nature, substantial amounts of organic matter and consequently fouling is a major problem in the operation of the plant.