Subcritical fouling behaviour modelling of membrane bioreactors for municipal wastewater treatment: The prediction of the time to reach critical operating condition

Desalination

Volumn 231, Issue 1-3, 2008, Pages 175-181

  Saroj, Devendra P ^a   Guglielmi, Giuseppe ^a   Chiarani, Daniele ^a   Andreottola, Gianni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bound and free EPS; Fouling behaviour model; Membrane bioreactors; Subcritical fouling

Indexed keywords

BIOREACTORS; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CHEMICAL REACTORS; FORECASTING; FOULING; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; PLANT MANAGEMENT; SCALE (DEPOSITS); TECHNOLOGY; THERMOMECHANICAL PULPING PROCESS; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WATER TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

BIOLOGICAL PROCESSING; BOUND AND FREE EPS; CRITICAL FLUXES; EXTRACELLULAR POLYMERIC SUBSTANCES; FOULING BEHAVIOUR MODEL; FOULING MODEL; IRREVERSIBLE FOULING; MBR TECHNOLOGY; MEMBRANE BIOREACTORS; MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT; MUNICIPAL WASTEWATERS; OPERATING CONDITIONS; OPERATIONAL STRATEGIES; PLANT OPERATIONS; PREDICTED TIME; SUBCRITICAL FLUX; SUBCRITICAL FOULING; TRANS-MEMBRANE PRESSURE;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

BIOREACTOR; FOULING; MODELING; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

EID: 49549100273     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2007.11.045     Document Type: Article

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