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Desalination of red sea water using both electrodialysis and reverse osmosis as complementary methods article pdf available in egyptian journal of petroleum 4521 april 2015 with 1,675 reads. In egypt, the red sea is of great ecological interest. The exchanges of water between the gulf and the northern red sea through the strait of tiran are several orders of magnitude larger than those that would be induced by the proposed abstraction flows, such that the latter would likely be imperceptible except in the immediate vicinity of the sink. In the water quality standardisation workshop, december 9 10, 1996, it was recommended that a user friendly standard analytical procedure sap manual for analysis of water samples should be prepared for use in chemical laboratories under hp. Longitude is shown as color in z axis to separate the two regions43 7. By unconscious are meant those who have no gnosis, i.
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