Mutual influences between natural organic matter and inorganic particles and their combined effect on ultrafiltration membrane fouling

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 42, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 9129-9136

  Jermann, Doris ^a   Pronk, Wouter ^a   Boller, Markus ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION EXPERIMENTS; ANTAGONISTIC EFFECTS; BATCH EXPERIMENTS; CAKE FORMATIONS; COMBINED EFFECTS; COMBINED FOULING; EQUILIBRIUM CONCENTRATIONS; FILTRATION PROCESSES; FOULING EFFECTS; FOULING MECHANISMS; HUMIC ACIDS; INORGANIC PARTICLES; MECHANISTIC MODELS; MEMBRANE ASSOCIATIONS; MEMBRANE TECHNOLOGIES; MODEL SUBSTANCES; NATURAL ORGANIC MATTERS; NATURAL WATERS; NOM FOULING; PARTICLE CHARACTERIZATIONS; PARTICLE DESTABILIZATIONS; PARTICLE FOULING; PARTICLE STABILIZATIONS; PORE BLOCKING; ULTRAFILTRATION MEMBRANES;

ADSORPTION; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOPOLYMERS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM ALLOYS; CLAY MINERALS; EXPERIMENTS; FLOW INTERACTIONS; FOULING; KAOLINITE; ORGANIC ACIDS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; POLYSACCHARIDES; POROUS MATERIALS; STABILIZATION; ULTRAFILTRATION;

AGGLOMERATION;

ADSORPTION; ALGINATE; CALCIUM; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOULING; HUMIC ACID; KAOLINITE; MEMBRANE; ULTRAFILTRATION;

ADSORPTION; CALCIUM; CARBON; HUMIC SUBSTANCES; INORGANIC CHEMICALS; KAOLIN; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; SOLUBILITY; TEMPERATURE; ULTRAFILTRATION;

EID: 58149172071     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es800654p     Document Type: Article

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