Impact of chemical cleaning and air-sparging on the critical and sustainable flux in a flat sheet membrane bioreactor for municipal wastewater treatment

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 57, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1873-1879

  Guglielmi, G ^a   Chiarani, D ^a   Saroj, D P ^a   Andreottola, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Air scouring; Chemical cleaning; Critical flux; MBR; Municipal wastewater; Sustainable operation

Indexed keywords

AIR CLEANERS; BIOREACTORS; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; FOULING; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PAPER SHEETING; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT;

AIR-SCOURING; CRITICAL FLUX; MBR; MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER; SUSTAINABLE OPERATION;

CHEMICAL CLEANING;

AIR SPARGING; BIOFOULING; BIOREACTOR; CLEANUP; MEMBRANE; SLUDGE; SUSTAINABILITY; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

AERATION; ARTICLE; BIOREACTOR; CLEANING; FOULING CONTROL; HYDRODYNAMICS; HYSTERESIS; MEMBRANE REACTOR; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; SPARGING; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

AIR; AIR MOVEMENTS; BIOREACTORS; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 47949128381     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2008.126     Document Type: Article

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