Quantitative biofouling diagnosis in full scale nanofiltration and reverse osmosis installations

Water Research

Volumn 42, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 4856-4868

  Vrouwenvelder, J S ^a,b,c   Manolarakis, S A ^a   van der Hoek, J P ^d   van Paassen, J A M ^e   van der Meer, W G J ^e,f   van Agtmaal, J M C ^g   Prummel, H D M ^h   Kruithof, J C ⁱ   van Loosdrecht, M C M ^c  

^a KWR WATERCYCLE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE FOR SUSTAINABLE WATER TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d Waternet   (Netherlands)

^e Vitens   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^g Evides Industriewater   (Netherlands)

^h Water Laboratory North   (Netherlands)

ⁱ PWN Water Supply Company North Holland   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biofilm; Biofouling; Diagnosis; Drinking water; Feed channel pressure drop; Membrane; Nanofiltration; Reverse osmosis; Scaling; Water treatment

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINETRIPHOSPHATE; BIOFILMS; BIOFOULING; DIAGNOSIS; DROPS; MEMBRANES; NANOFILTRATION; POTABLE WATER; PRESSURE DROP; REVERSE OSMOSIS; WATER FILTRATION; WATER TREATMENT;

BIOFILM ACCUMULATION; BIOLOGICAL PARAMETER; FEED CHANNEL; HETEROTROPHIC PLATE COUNTS; MEMBRANE AUTOPSIES; MEMBRANE ELEMENTS; SCALING; SYSTEMATIC RESEARCH;

NANOFILTRATION MEMBRANES;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; DRINKING WATER;

BIOFILM; BIOFOULING; FILTRATION; OSMOSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; BIOFOULING; FOULING CONTROL; NANOFILTRATION; PLATE COUNT; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE OSMOSIS; WATER QUALITY; WATER TREATMENT;

EID: 55249113362     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2008.09.002     Document Type: Article

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