Journal
DESALINATION
Volume 261, Issue 3, Pages 354-364Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2010.07.002
Keywords
Seawater; Pretreatment; Desalination; Membranes; Biofouling; Reverse osmosis; SWRO; Ultrafiltration; Microfiltration
Categories
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Two types of pretreatment systems are typically used to protect seawater reverse osmosis membranes from fouling: conventional granular media filtration and membrane filtration. While granular medial filtration is still a dominating seawater pretreatment technology, microfiltration and ultrafiltration membrane systems for seawater pretreatment have evolved rapidly over the past decade and may offer cost and performance benefits for the site specific conditions and challenges of a given seawater desalination project. This article presents a critical review of widely used conventional granular and membrane pretreatment technologies and addresses key factors, and issues which would need to be taken under consideration when selecting a seawater pretreatment system. (c) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available