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Article: New desalination study results from J.S. Choi et al described.
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- Journal of Technology
- Article date:
- November 10, 2009
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"Desalination is now being proposed for many countries facing water scarcity as a supplement to existing water supplies. In Korea, however, desalination for domestic water usage was restricted to small isolated communities with access to no other water supply," scientists in South Korea report.
"To date, small-scale RO (reverse osmosis) desalination systems, which size ranges from 10 m(3)/day to 1000 m(3)/day, have been constructed to produce potable water from brackish or seawater. The major issue of these systems is the optimization of system design to minimize capital cost and energy consumption, which is likely to be difficult for small-scale systems. This ...