Role of membrane surface morphology in colloidal fouling of cellulose acetate and composite aromatic polyamide reverse osmosis membranes

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 101-109

  Elimelech, Menachem ^a   Zhu, Xiaohua ^a   Childress, Amy E ^a   Hong, Seungkwan ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Colloidal fouling; Flux decline; Membrane fouling; Reverse osmosis membranes; Surface morphology; Surface roughness

Indexed keywords

ANIONIC SURFACTANT; AROMATIC POLYAMIDE; CELLULOSE ACETATE; DODECYL SULFATE SODIUM;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; COLLOID; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

CELLULOSE DERIVATIVES; FOULING; POLYAMIDES; POLYMERIC MEMBRANES; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

CELLULOSE ACETATE; MEMBRANE FOULING;

OSMOSIS MEMBRANES;

FOULING; MEMBRANES; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EID: 0030616146     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-7388(96)00351-1     Document Type: Article

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