The (in)significance of apparent viscosity in full-scale municipal membrane bioreactors

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 340, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 249-256

  Moreau, A A ^a   Ratkovich, N ^b   Nopens, I ^b   van der Graaf, J H J M ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Apparent viscosity; Delft Filtration Characterisation method; Full scale MBR

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; APPARENT VISCOSITY; DELFT FILTRATION CHARACTERISATION METHOD; DIRECT IMPACT; FILTRATION CHARACTERISATION; FOULING POTENTIAL; FULL-SCALE MBR; MEMBRANE BIOREACTOR; MEMBRANE PERFORMANCE; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; OXYGEN TRANSFER EFFICIENCY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TOTAL SUSPENDED SOLIDS;

BIOACTIVITY; BIOREACTORS; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS; MEMBRANE FOULING; MEMBRANES; OXYGEN; POROUS MATERIALS; VISCOMETERS; VISCOSITY; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

MICROFILTRATION;

OXYGEN;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ARTICLE; BIOREACTOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPE; FILTER DESIGN; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MEMBRANE REACTOR; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; THERMODYNAMICS; VISCOSITY;

EID: 67649363137     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2009.05.049     Document Type: Article

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