Non-invasive monitoring of fouling in hollow fiber membrane via UTDR

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 326, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 103-110

  Xu, Xincheng ^a   Li, Jianxin ^a   Li, Hesheng ^b   Cai, Ying ^a   Cao, Yuhe ^a   He, Benqiao ^a   Zhang, Yuzhong ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Hollow fiber membrane; Membrane fouling; Microfiltration; Ultrasonic time domain reflectometry

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; BIOLOGICAL WATER TREATMENT; BIOREACTORS; FIBERS; FLOW RATE; FOULING; KAOLIN; MICROFILTRATION; PHASE INTERFACES; REFLECTION; REFLECTOMETERS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TIME MEASUREMENT; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONIC MEASUREMENT; ULTRASONICS;

ACOUSTIC MEASUREMENTS; ACOUSTIC RESPONSES; CRITICAL PROBLEMS; DO-MAINS; FLUX DECLINES; FOULING LAYERS; HOLLOW FIBER MEMBRANE; HOLLOW FIBERS; KAOLIN SUSPENSIONS; LIQUID MEDIAS; MEASUREMENT OF PARTICLES; MEMBRANE BIOREACTOR SYSTEMS; MEMBRANE FOULING; MEMBRANE SEPARATIONS; NEW PROTOCOLS; NON-INVASIVE MONITORING; OPERATION TIMES; OUTSIDE DIAMETERS; POLYETHER SULFONES; PURE WATERS; QUANTITATIVE APPROACHES; REFLECTOMETRY; SEM ANALYSES; SINGLE HOLLOW FIBERS; ULTRASONIC TIME-DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY;

MEMBRANES;

KAOLIN;

ARTICLE; BIOFOULING; FOULING CONTROL; HOLLOW FIBER MEMBRANE; MEMBRANE REACTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLECTOMETRY; ULTRASONIC TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY;

EID: 56649107999     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2008.09.042     Document Type: Article

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