Protein fouling of ultrafiltration membranes - Investigation of several factors relevant for tertiary wastewater treatment

Journal of Environmental Engineering and Science

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 651-660

  Haberkamp, Jens ^a,b   Ernst, Mathias ^a,b   Makdissy, Gladys ^c   Huck, Peter M ^c   Jekel, Martin ^a,b  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b Department of Water Quality Control ^*  (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cross flow ultrafiltration; Membrane fouling; Protein adsorption; Protein denaturation; Tertiary treatment

Indexed keywords

EFFLUENTS; FOULING; MACROMOLECULES; MEMBRANE FOULING; MEMBRANES; MICROFILTRATION; PORE SIZE; PROTEINS; PUMPS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; ULTRAFILTRATION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER FILTRATION;

CROSS-FLOW ULTRAFILTRATION; FILTRATION RESISTANCE; ISO-ELECTRIC POINTS; PROTEIN ADSORPTION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; TERTIARY TREATMENT; TERTIARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT; ULTRA-FILTRATION MEMBRANES;

FILTRATION;

EID: 55849098018     PISSN: 14962551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/S08-038     Document Type: Article

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