Submerged membrane bioreactor (sMBR) for the treatment of contaminated raw water

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 148, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 296-305

  Tian, Jia yu ^a   Liang, Heng ^a   Nan, Jun ^a   Yang, Yan ling ^b   You, Shi jie ^a   Li, Gui bai ^a  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Drinking water treatment; Membrane fouling; Rejection; Sludge layer; Submerged membrane bioreactor (sMBR); Ultrafiltration (UF)

Indexed keywords

BIOCONVERSION; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOLOGICAL WATER TREATMENT; BIOREACTORS; CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); DISSOLUTION; FRACTIONATION; HYDROPHOBICITY; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS; MANGANESE; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; MEMBRANES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; POTABLE WATER; SURFACE TREATMENT; SURFACE WATERS; ULTRAFILTRATION; WATER RECYCLING; WATER SUPPLY;

AMMONIA REMOVALS; BIOLOGICAL NITRIFICATIONS; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTERS; DRINKING WATER TREATMENT; HYDRAULIC RETENTION TIME; HYDROPHILIC ORGANIC MATTERS; HYDROPHOBIC ACIDS; HYDROPHOBIC BASIS; HYDROPHOBIC NEUTRALS; ORGANIC MATTER REMOVALS; ORGANIC MOLECULES; PILOT EXPERIMENTS; RAW WATERS; REJECTION; REMOVAL EFFICIENCIES; SLUDGE LAYER; SUBMERGED MEMBRANE BIOREACTOR (SMBR); SURFACE WATER SUPPLIES; UF MEMBRANES;

MEMBRANE FOULING;

EID: 61849134329     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2008.08.032     Document Type: Article

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