Critical flux aspect of air sparging and backflushing on membrane bioreactors

Desalination

Volumn 175, Issue 1 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 61-71

  Psoch, C ^a   Schiewer, S ^a  

^a University of Alaska Fairbanks   (United States)

Author keywords

Air sparging; Backflushing; Critical flux; Fouling; Limiting flux; Membrane bioreactor; Pseudo steady state flux; Synthetic wastewater

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; FOULING; PRESSURE EFFECTS;

CRITICAL FLUX; MEMBRANE BIOREACTORS (MBR); MEMBRANE FILTRATION; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY;

BIOREACTORS;

BIOREACTOR; FILTRATION; MEMBRANE; PERMEABILITY;

EID: 23444435068     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2004.09.023     Document Type: Article

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