On the potential of forward osmosis to energetically outperform reverse osmosis desalination
We provide a comparison of the theoretical and actual energy requirements of forward osmosis and reverse osmosis seawater desalination. We argue that reverse osmosis is significantly more energy efficient and that forward osmosis research efforts would best be fully oriented towards alternate applic...
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Elsevier
2016
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/102494 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2901-0638 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3808-8824 |