The effects of soluble organic matters on membrane fouling index

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1875-1877

  Chuang, Shun Hsing ^a   Chang, Wei Chin ^b   Chang, Min Chao ^c   Sung, Ming An ^a  

^a CHAOYANG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YUNLIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Fouling; Membrane; Modified fouling index; Silt density index; Soluble organic matters

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; FILTRATION; GLUCOSE; MEMBRANES; MICROFILTRATION; NUCLEIC ACIDS; ORGANIC ACIDS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; POROUS MATERIALS; SILT; SURFACE TREATMENT;

FOULING POTENTIALS; HUMIC ACIDS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSES; MEMBRANE FOULING; MODIFIED FOULING INDEX; MODIFIED FOULING INDICES; ORGANIC MATTERS; SATURATION CURVES; SILT DENSITY INDEX; SILT DENSITY INDICES; SOLUBLE ORGANIC MATTERS;

FOULING;

DEXTRAN; GLUCOSE; HUMIC ACID; NUCLEIC ACID; ORGANIC MATTER;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FILTRATION; HUMIC ACID; NUCLEIC ACID; NUMERICAL METHOD; ORGANIC MATTER; SILT;

ARTICLE; BIOFOULING; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADSORPTION; FILTRATION; GLUCOSE; HUMIC SUBSTANCES; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PROTEINS; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 57049173365     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2008.09.054     Document Type: Article

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