Membrane desalination and water re-use for agriculture: State of the art and future outlook

Suwaileh, Wafa; Johnson, Daniel; Hilal, Nidal

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Membrane desalination and water re-use for agriculture: State of the art and future outlook

Wafa Suwaileh, Daniel Johnson

, Nidal Hilal

Desalination, Volume: 491, Start page: 114559

Swansea University Authors: Daniel Johnson , Nidal Hilal

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Membrane-based desalination technologies for agricultural applications are widely applied in many countries around the world. Sustainable and cost-effective desalination technologies, such as reverse osmosis (RO), membrane distillation, forward osmosis, membrane bioreactor, and electrodialysis, are...

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Membrane desalination and water re-use for agriculture: State of the art and future outlook

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