The development of membrane fouling in full-scale RO processes

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 232, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 63-72

  Chen, Kai Loon ^a   Song, Lianfa ^a   Ong, Say Leong ^a   Ng, Wun Jern ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Fouling; Modeling; Reverse osmosisc; Theory; Water treatment

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FILTRATION; FOULING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REVERSE OSMOSIS;

FEED WATER; MEMBRANE FOULING;

OSMOSIS MEMBRANES;

FOULING; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; MEMBRANE; REVERSE OSMOSIS; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; BIOFOULING; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; MEMBRANE FILTER; MEMBRANE RESISTANCE; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SIMULATION; WATER FLOW; WATER TREATMENT;

EID: 1442313084     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2003.11.028     Document Type: Article

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