Pretreatment of seawater for biodegradable organic content removal using membrane bioreactor

Desalination

Volumn 153, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 133-140

  Visvanathan, Chettiyappan ^a   Boonthanon, Natapol ^a   Sathasivan, Arumugam ^a   Jegatheesan, Veeriah ^b  

^a ASIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Thailand)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biodegradable organic matter; Biofouling; Membrane bioreactor; Microfiltration; Pretreatment; Reverse osmosis

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADATION; BIOREACTORS; ENERGY UTILIZATION; MEMBRANES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; OXYGEN; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SEAWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

FOULING CONTROL;

DESALINATION;

BIOREACTOR; MEMBRANE TECHNOLOGY; MICROFILTRATION; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SEA WATER;

EID: 0038323234     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0011-9164(02)01114-1     Document Type: Article

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