Long-term flux improvement by air sparging and backflushing for a membrane bioreactor, and modeling permeability decline

Desalination

Volumn 230, Issue 1-3, 2008, Pages 193-204

  Psoch, C ^a   Schiewer, S ^b  

^a USFilter   (United States)

^b University of Alaska Fairbanks   (United States)

Author keywords

Air sparging; Backflushing; Chemical cleaning; Fouling; Permeability model; Viscosity; Water flux

Indexed keywords

AIR; AIR FILTERS; BIOREACTORS; CAPILLARITY; FILTRATION; FOULING; GLUCOSE; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS; LIQUIDS; POROUS MATERIALS; SCALE (DEPOSITS); SOLIDS;

AIR SPARGING; AND MODELING; ANTI-FOULING; APPLICATIONS.; BACKFLUSHING; CHEMICAL CLEANING; CROSSFLOW VELOCITIES; MEMBRANE BIOREACTOR; MEMBRANE FILTRATION; PERMEABILITY MODEL; POWER FUNCTIONS; SIDE STREAMS; SYNTHETIC WASTEWATERS; TEST RUNS; VISCOSITY; WATER FLUX;

MICROFILTRATION;

AIR SPARGING; BIOREACTOR; FOULING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMEABILITY; VISCOSITY;

EID: 48449092269     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2007.11.026     Document Type: Article

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