Initial stages of bacterial fouling during dead-end microfiltration

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 17, 2005, Pages 6470-6476

  Xu, Wendong ^a   Chellam, Shankararaman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CELLS; FOULING; HYDRODYNAMICS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; POLYCARBONATES; PROTEINS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT;

BACTERIAL FOULING; DEAD-END MICROFILTRATION; EXREACELLULAR POLYMERIC SUBSTANCE (EPS); WASTEWATER MICROFILTRATION;

MICROFILTRATION;

EXTRACELLULAR POLYMERIC SUBSTANCE; POLYCARBONATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

FOULING; MICROFILTRATION;

ARTICLE; BREVUNDIMONAS DIMINUTA; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; DEAD END MICROFILTRATION; DEPOSITION FACTOR; DRY DEPOSITION; FOULING CONTROL; HYDRODYNAMICS; MEMBRANE FILTER; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MICROFILTRATION; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; REACTION TIME; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; WASTE WATER;

BACTERIA; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PARTICLE SIZE; PERMEABILITY; POLYSACCHARIDES; PROTEINS; SEWAGE; ULTRAFILTRATION; WATER PURIFICATION;

BREVUNDIMONAS DIMINUTA; SERRATIA MARCESCENS;

EID: 24644504012     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es0500862     Document Type: Article

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