Application of House of Quality in assessment of seawater pretreatment technologies

摘要

Increasing pressure on water resources is leading to a growing reliance on seawater desalination for the provision of freshwater. Pretreatment of seawater is a major step in seawater desalination, which can mitigate problems with reverse osmosis (RO) membranes. No clearly superior pretreatment technology exists, due to the variation in input water quality, and furthermore, the pretreatment must be designed to be functional with input water quality characteristics that vary considerably over time.