A systematic approach to determine the fouling index for a RO/NF membrane process

Desalination

Volumn 238, Issue 1-3, 2009, Pages 117-127

  Choi, June Seok ^a   Hwang, Tae Mun ^a   Lee, Sangho ^a   Hong, Seungkwan ^b  

^a Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology   (South Korea)

^b Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Desalination; Fouling index; Nanofiltration; Pretreatment; Reverse osmosis

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; DESALINATION; FILTRATION; FOULING; MEMBRANES; MICROFILTRATION; NANOFILTRATION; OSMOSIS; POROUS MATERIALS; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SURFACE TREATMENT; WATER FILTRATION;

EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS; FOULING INDEX; MEMBRANE FILTERS; MEMBRANE PROCESSES; NOVEL METHODS; ORGANICS; PRETREATMENT; SILT DENSITY INDEX (SDI); TEST MEMBRANES;

MEMBRANE FOULING;

ADSORPTION; DEPOSITION; DESALINATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FILTER; FILTRATION; FOULING; MEMBRANE; OSMOSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 58449098138     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2008.01.042     Document Type: Article

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