2008 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Removal of Emerging Contaminants in Water Treatment by Nanofiltration and Reverse Osmosis
Authors : Branko Kunst, Krešimir Košutić
Published in: Emerging Contaminants from Industrial and Municipal Waste
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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The general rules established in abundant studies on removal of conventional pollutants from waters by reverse osmosis and nanofiltration were reconsidered in this contribution in order to determine their applicability for the removal of emerging contaminants. The new results on removal of organic pollutants at trace concentrations from waters and wastewaters are presented, together with the assessment of the extent to which the general findings and rules of NF/RO are valid and confirmed in the recent studies. Some specific findings and conclusions from studies on the removal of emerging micropollutants are also highlighted.