Identification and characterisation of biofilm formed on membrane bio-reactor

Separation and Purification Technology

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 86-94

  Aryal, Rupak ^a   Lebegue, Julie ^b   Vigneswaran, Saravamuthu ^a   Kandasamy, Jaya ^a   Grasmick, Alain ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b CIRAD   (France)

Author keywords

Fluorescence; Foulant; Membrane bio reactor; Microbial by products

Indexed keywords

AERATION RATES; CHARACTERISATION; FLAT SHEET MEMBRANES; FLUORESCENT SPECTROSCOPIES; FOULANT; HIGH-MOLECULAR WEIGHTS; LABORATORY-SCALE; LONG DURATIONS; LOW-MOLECULAR WEIGHTS; MEMBRANE BIO-REACTOR; MEMBRANE SURFACES; MICROBIAL BY-PRODUCTS; NAOH SOLUTIONS; SHORT DURATIONS; SIDE STREAMS; SIZE EXCLUSIONS; TEMPORAL VARIATIONS;

CHROMATOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; EXTRACTION; FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; SIZE EXCLUSION CHROMATOGRAPHY;

MEMBRANES;

EID: 67349277720     PISSN: 13835866     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seppur.2009.03.031     Document Type: Article

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