Understanding the size and character of fouling-causing substances from effluent organic matter (EfOM) in low-pressure membrane filtration

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 40, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 4495-4499

  Laabs, Claudia N ^a,c   Amy, Gary L ^b   Jekel, Martin ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^c DIN Deutsches Institut fur Normung   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFLUENT ORGANIC MATTER (EFOM); FLUX DECLINE; LOW-PRESSURE MEMBRANE FILTRATION; SEQUENTIAL FILTRATION;

COLLOIDS; FOULING; MICROFILTRATION; PERMSELECTIVE MEMBRANES; PROTEINS; SIZE EXCLUSION CHROMATOGRAPHY; ULTRAFILTRATION;

EFFLUENT TREATMENT;

ORGANIC CARBON; POLYSACCHARIDE; PROTEIN;

COLLOIDS; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; FOULING; MICROFILTRATION; PERMSELECTIVE MEMBRANES; PROTEINS; SIZE EXCLUSION CHROMATOGRAPHY; ULTRAFILTRATION;

EFFLUENT; FILTRATION; FOULING; ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC MATTER; ULTRAVIOLET A RADIATION;

ARTICLE; BIOFOULING; COLLOID; EFFLUENT; ELUTION; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; MACROMOLECULE; MEMBRANE FILTER; MICROFILTRATION; PARTICLE SIZE; STIRRED REACTOR; ULTRAFILTRATION; ULTRAVIOLET A RADIATION; WATER QUALITY;

CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; FILTRATION; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PRESSURE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET;

EID: 33746191766     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es060070r     Document Type: Article

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