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Desalination Technology for Sustainable Water Resource

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Glossary

Brine:

Water that contains a salt concentration greater than 50,000 ppm. Also, it is generally used in MSF processes to describe inlet seawater.

Concentration polarization:

Higher level of concentration profile of solute nearest to the upstream membrane surface compared with the more or less well-mixed bulk fluid far from the membrane surface.

Forward osmosis:

Process using osmotic pressure difference between brine and permeate as the driving force for water production.

Fouling:

The deposition of suspended or dissolved substances on the membrane surface, at the membrane pore, or within membrane pores.

Membrane distillation:

Thermal-driven membrane process, in which only water vapor can be transported through hydrophobic membranes.

Multieffect distillation:

Process uses multiple evaporators in a sequence at progressively low pressures. Generated vapor from each effect is used as a heat source in the next effect.

Multistage flash distillation:

Process using flash evaporation to...

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  3. European Desalination Society (EDS), Tel Aviv, Israel

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Kim, J.H., Balaban, M. (2012). Desalination Technology for Sustainable Water Resource. In: Zhang, H.X. (eds) Water Sustainability. Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-2466-1_264

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