Technical Proceedings of the 2010 NSTI Nanotechnology Conference & Expo - Nanotech 2010
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Nanotech 2010 Vol. 3
Chapter 9: Water, Oil, Gas & Bio Energy
Innovative Cost-effective Pre-treatment for Desalination
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| Authors: | M.H. Lean, J. Seo, A. Kole, A.R. Volkel, N. Chang, B. Hsieh, K. Melde |
| Affiliation: | Palo Alto Research Center, US |
| Pages: | 598 - 600 |
| Keywords: | membrane-less filtration, neutrally buoyant suspensions, aggregation kinetics, fluid shear |
| Abstract: | This paper describes an innovative technology to pre-treat feed water for desalination. An inline coagulation-flocculation-separation (CFS) system is detailed that does not require filtration or sedimentation. Advantages include: scalability, modularity, rapid processing, low energy, and low maintenance. In comparison with conventional and membrane pre-treatments, this technology may allow reductions in capital cost by 30-70%, operations and maintenance cost by 30-40% and land use by 58-77%. |
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