Threshold concentration of easily assimilable organic carbon in feedwater for biofouling of spiral-wound membranes

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 4890-4895

  Hijnen, W A M ^a   Biraud, D ^b   Cornelissen, E R ^a   Van Der Kooij, D ^a  

^a KWR WATERCYCLE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^b Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie de Mulhouse   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSIMILABLE ORGANIC CARBON; BIOFILM FORMATION; CONCENTRATION OF; DRINKING WATER; FEED CHANNEL; FEEDWATER; FIRST ORDER; FIRST-ORDER PROCESS; FOULING RATE; GROWTH CONDITIONS; MEMBRANE FOULING SIMULATOR; MICROBIAL GROWTH; SATURATION CONSTANT; SATURATION FUNCTION; THRESHOLD CONCENTRATIONS;

BACTERIOLOGY; BIOFILMS; BIOFOULING; CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); DESALINATION; DROPS; FIRE HAZARDS; GROWTH KINETICS; MEMBRANE FOULING; MEMBRANE TECHNOLOGY; ORGANIC CARBON; POTABLE WATER; PRESSURE DROP; RATE CONSTANTS; WATER FILTRATION;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS);

DRINKING WATER; ORGANIC CARBON;

BIOFILM; BIOFOULING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DESALINATION; MEMBRANE; ORGANIC CARBON; POROSITY; SATURATION; THRESHOLD; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; BIOFILM; BIOFOULING; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); MICROBIAL GROWTH; POROSITY; SIMULATOR; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ACETATES; BIOFILMS; BIOMASS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FILTRATION; KINETICS; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; OSMOSIS; PRESSURE; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; WATER; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 67649999466     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es900037x     Document Type: Article

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