Organic fouling of nanofiltration membranes: Evaluating the effects of humic acid, calcium, alum coagulant and their combinations on the specific cake resistance

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 332, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 56-62

  Listiarini, Karina ^a   Sun, Darren D ^a   Leckie, James O ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Coagulation pre treatment; Humic acid; Membrane fouling index (MFI); Nanofiltration (NF); Specific cake resistance

Indexed keywords

ATTACHMENT COEFFICIENTS; DEAD-END FILTRATIONS; FLUX DECLINES; FOULING INDICES; FOULING MECHANISMS; HUMIC ACID; ORGANIC FOULING; SPECIFIC CAKE RESISTANCE;

ACID RESISTANCE; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM ALLOYS; COAGULATION; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; MICROFILTRATION; NANOFILTRATION; NANOFILTRATION MEMBRANES; ORGANIC ACIDS; SULFATE MINERALS; SURFACE TREATMENT;

MEMBRANE FOULING;

ALUMINUM POTASSIUM SULFATE; CALCIUM; HUMIC ACID;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; BIOFOULING; COMPRESSION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EVALUATION; FLUID FLOW; MASS; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; NANOFILTRATION; NANOFILTRATION MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 62649088406     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2009.01.037     Document Type: Article

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