Analysis of micromixers to reduce biofouling on reverse-osmosis membranes

Environmental Progress

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 195-203

  Ho, Clifford K ^a   Altman, Susan J ^a   Jones, Howland D T ^a   Khalsa, Siri S ^a   McGrath, Lucas K ^a   Clem, Paul G ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Biofouling; Cfd modeling; Hyperspectral imaging; Membrane; Micromixer

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GROWTH; BIOFOULING; CFD MODELING; CHAOTIC MIXING; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS MODELING; COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING; HIGH SHEAR; HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGING; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MEMBRANE; MEMBRANE FOULING; MEMBRANE SURFACES; MICRO-MIXERS; MICROMIXER; OVERALL PERFORMANCE; STRESS DISTRIBUTIONS;

ATMOSPHERICS; BACTERIOLOGY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DYNAMICS; EXPERIMENTS; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID MECHANICS; FOULING; MEMBRANES; METALLURGY; MIXERS (MACHINERY); MIXING; OPTICAL DESIGN; OSMOSIS; PAINTING; SCALE (DEPOSITS); SHEAR STRESS; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; STRESS CONCENTRATION;

OSMOSIS MEMBRANES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 52649182563     PISSN: 02784491     EISSN: 10982280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ep.10274     Document Type: Article

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