Secondary wastewater polishing with ultrafiltration membranes for unrestricted reuse: Fouling and flushing modeling

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 40, Issue 21, 2006, Pages 6830-6836

  Gillerman, Leonid ^a   Bick, Amos ^b   Buriakovsky, Nisan ^a   Oron, Gideon ^a,c,d  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b JERUSALEM COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEMBRANES; PILOT PLANTS; ULTRAFILTRATION;

MANAGEMENT MODELS; ULTRAFILTRATION MEMBRANE; VOLUMETRIC FLOW RATES; VOLUMETRIC PERMEATE FLOW;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEMBRANES; PILOT PLANTS; ULTRAFILTRATION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

CORRELATION; FLUSHING; FOULING; RECYCLING; ULTRAFILTRATION; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; BIOFOULING; FLOW RATE; FLUSHING; ISRAEL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PILOT STUDY; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; ULTRAFILTRATION; VOLUMETRY; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

ISRAEL; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PILOT PROJECTS; PRESSURE; TIME FACTORS; ULTRAFILTRATION; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER; WATER PURIFICATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 33750890929     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es061235z     Document Type: Article

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