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PAPERBACK price:$34.75 add to cart Rights & Permissions Free PDF Access Sign in to download PDF book and chapters Free Resources PDF SUMMARY Display this book on your site! Related Titles Desalination: A National Perspective NASA Space Technology Roadmaps and Priorities: Restoring NASA's Technological Edge and Paving the Way for a New Era in Space Other Related Titles Review of the Desalination and Water Purification Technology Roadmap (2004) Water Science and Technology Board (WSTB) Citation Manager Export the bibliographic data for this book in your chosen format Web Search Builder Use this book's key terms to search within this book, across our collection, or across the Web. Skim This Chapter Skim this chapter and use this chapter's key terms to search within this book. Reference Finder Paste in your own text to find books that relate to your topic. Citation Manager . "Abbreviations and Acronyms." Review of the Desalination and Water Purification Technology Roadmap. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2004. Please select a format: Page 63   E-mail Share on facebook Facebook Share on delicious Delicious Share on stumbleupon Stumble Share on twitter Twitter More Sharing ServicesMore The following HTML text is provided to enhance online readability. Many aspects of typography translate only awkwardly to HTML. Please use the page image as the authoritative form to ensure accuracy. Abbreviations and Acronyms AMTA American Membrane Technology Association AWWA American Water Works Association AwwaRF American Water Works Association Research Foundation BC before the Christian era CO2 Carbon dioxide ED electrodialysis EDR electrodialysis reversal EPA United States Environmental Protection Agency gal gallon gfd gallons per square foot per day kPa kilopascals kWh kilowatt hours L liter mg milligrams mgd million gallons per day m3 cubic meters MED multi-effect distillation MBR membrane bioreactor MF microfiltration Mgd million gallons per day MPa megapascals MSF multi-stage flash distillation NaCl sodium chloride NF nanofiltration NRC National Research Council NWRI National Water Research Institute n-ZLD near-zero liquid discharge OWRT Office of Water Research and Technology OSW Office of Saline Water ppi pounds per square inch ppm parts per million RO reverse osmosis SNL Sandia National Laboratories Page 63 Front Matter (R1-R8) Executive Summary (1-7) 1 Introduction (8-18) 2 Overall Assessment of the Roadmap (19-23) 3 Key Technological and Scientific Issues for Desalination (24-53) 4 Implementation (54-58) References (59-62) Abbreviations and Acronyms (63-64) Appendix A: Letter Report to John W. Keys, Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation (65-71) Appendix B: Roster of the Water Science and Technology Board (72-72) Appendix C: Biographical Information of Committee (73-76)

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Review of the Desalination and Water Purification Technology Roadmap Abbreviations and Acronyms AMTA American Membrane Technology Association AWWA American Water Works Association AwwaRF American Water Works Association Research Foundation BC before the Christian era CO2 Carbon dioxide ED electrodialysis EDR electrodialysis reversal EPA United States Environmental Protection Agency gal gallon gfd gallons per square foot per day kPa kilopascals kWh kilowatt hours L liter mg milligrams mgd million gallons per day m3 cubic meters MED multi-effect distillation MBR membrane bioreactor MF microfiltration Mgd million gallons per day MPa megapascals MSF multi-stage flash distillation NaCl sodium chloride NF nanofiltration NRC National Research Council NWRI National Water Research Institute n-ZLD near-zero liquid discharge OWRT Office of Water Research and Technology OSW Office of Saline Water ppi pounds per square inch ppm parts per million RO reverse osmosis SNL Sandia National Laboratories

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Review of the Desalination and Water Purification Technology Roadmap TGPC Texas Groundwater Protection Committee TOC total organic carbon TDS total dissolved solids UF ultrafiltration U.S. United States USBR United States Bureau of Reclamation WHO World Health Organization VC vapor compression ZLD zero liquid discharge

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