Soluble microbial products in membrane bioreactor operation: Behaviors, characteristics, and fouling potential

Water Research

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 95-101

  Liang, Shuang ^a   Liu, Cui ^a   Song, Lianfa ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Accumulation; Characteristics; Fouling potential; Membrane bioreactor; Sludge retention time; Soluble microbial products

Indexed keywords

BIOREACTORS; COMPOSITION; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; SEWAGE SLUDGE;

FOULING POTENTIAL; MEMBRANE BIOREACTORS; SLUDGE RETENTION TIME; SOLUBLE MICROBIAL PRODUCTS (SMP);

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

CARBOHYDRATE; MICROBIAL PRODUCTS NOT CLASSIFIED ELSEWHERE; PROTEIN;

BIOREACTORS; COMPOSITION; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; SEWAGE SLUDGE; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; BIODEGRADATION; BIOREACTOR; CARBOHYDRATE; EFFLUENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOULING; PROTEIN; SLUDGE; WASTEWATER;

ARTICLE; BIOFOULING; BIOREACTOR; HUMAN; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLUDGE TREATMENT; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

EID: 34548030148     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2006.10.008     Document Type: Article

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