A promising optical technique to measure cake thickness of biological particles during a filtration process

Desalination

Volumn 206, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 36-41

  Ouazzani, Kamar ^a   Bentama, Jilali ^a  

^a SIDI MOHAMED BEN ABDELLAH UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

Author keywords

Cake thickness; Filtration; LED; Light reflection; Membrane; Photointerrupter

Indexed keywords

LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; REFLECTION; YEAST;

BAKER YEAST; BIOLOGICAL PARTICLE CAKE; MINERAL MEMBRANE; PHOTOINTERRUPTER;

FILTRATION;

FILTRATION; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; REFLECTION; YEAST;

FILTRATION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MEMBRANE; OPTICAL METHOD; SENSOR;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 33846784884     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2006.01.038     Document Type: Article

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