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The effect of ultrafiltration as pretreatment to reverse osmosis in wastewater reuse and seawater desalination applications
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In this article, two applications to use unconventional sources for water production are described and the technical feasibility for this application has been shown and operational costs have been estimated on the basis of three pilot plant trails.About:
This article is published in Desalination.The article was published on 1999-11-01. It has received 81 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Desalination & Reverse osmosis.read more
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A comprehensive review of nanofiltration membranes:Treatment, pretreatment, modelling, and atomic force microscopy
TL;DR: A comprehensive review of NF in water treatments is presented in this paper, including a review of the applications of NF as well as in the pretreatment process for desalination; the mechanism and minimization of NF membrane fouling problems; and theories for modelling and transport of salt, charged and noncharged organic compounds in NF membranes.
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Distillation vs. membrane filtration: overview of process evolutions in seawater desalination
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide an overview of recent process improvements in seawater desalination using reverse osmosis (RO), multi stage flash (MSF), multi effect distillation (MED), electrodialysis (ED), and hybrid processes.
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A short review on reverse osmosis pretreatment technologies
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed the literature and summarized relevant methods, mechanisms and novel developments which improve the performance of the reverse osmosis (RO) systems when coupled with either conventional or non-conventional pretreatment units.
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Removal of natural steroid hormones from wastewater using membrane contactor processes.
Joshua L. Cartinella,Tzahi Y. Cath,Michael T. Flynn,Glenn C. Miller,Kenneth W. Hunter,Amy E. Childress +5 more
TL;DR: Retention of two natural steroid hormones, estrone and 17beta-estradiol, by these two processes was evaluated in the current investigation of direct contact membrane distillation and forward osmosis for wastewater treatment in space.
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The global status of desalination: An assessment of current desalination technologies, plants and capacity
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the existing desalination data of over 6 decades (from 1960s to year 2020) to provide an in-depth assessment, via statistical analysis, of the global spread of desalification, current industrial technologies, and current economic indicators, in order to observe possible future expectations.
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Towards the establishment of a total water cycle management and re-use program in the GCC countries
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed that if only 50% of domestic water supplies are treated and recycled in agriculture, recycled waters have the potential to meet more than 11% of the GCC countries total water demands, could satisfy more than 14% of their agricultural sector demands, and could reduce fossil groundwater withdrawal by more than 15% by the year 2020.
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Ultrafiltration (new technology), a viable cost-saving pretreatment for reverse osmosis and nanofiltration — A new approach to reduce costs☆
TL;DR: A new technology using ultrafiltration for pretreatment in reverse osmosis and nanofiltration is described.
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Latest developments in ultrafiltration for large-scale drinking water applications
TL;DR: In view of the implementation of ultrafiltration for large-scale drinking water applications, the properties of the membranes, the types of modules and the mode of operation had to be reviewed as mentioned in this paper.
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Dead-end ultrafiltration of pretreated and untreated WWTP effluent for re-use in process water applications☆
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present qualitative and quantitative results of experiments on several locations and an indication of operational costs of the 8-inch dead-end ultra-filtration technology.
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Membrane filtration for greenhouse horticulture. Largest ultrafiltration plant in The Netherlands
TL;DR: In the south-east of the Province of Drenthe, in the municipality of Emmen, there are two large areas with greenhouse horticulture as discussed by the authors, where greenhouse operaters switched over to water taken from a former sandpit, but during the last three years the iron-concentration in that water rose.
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