Fouling and cleaning in an ultrafiltration membrane bioreactor for municipal wastewater treatment

Separation Science and Technology

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1773-1789

  Xing, Chuan Hong ^d   Wen, X H ^a   Qian, Y ^a   Wu, W Z ^b   Klose, P S ^c  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Singapore Utilities International Pte Ltd   (Singapore)

^d Innovation Center   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Fouling mechanism; Membrane bioreactor; Multistep cleaning; Municipal wastewater; Ultrafiltration

Indexed keywords

BIOREACTORS; CLEANING; FOULING; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; MUNICIPAL ENGINEERING; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER;

ULTRAFILTRATION;

HYPOCHLORITE SODIUM;

BIOREACTOR; CLEANING; FOULING; MEMBRANE; ULTRAFILTRATION; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; BIOFOULING; BIOREACTOR; GEL; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; PRESSURE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEWAGE TREATMENT; TEMPERATURE; ULTRAFILTRATION; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0037621501     PISSN: 01496395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/SS-120019408     Document Type: Article

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