Characterization of biofouling on hollow fiber membranes using confocal laser scanning microcscopy and image analysis

Desalination

Volumn 245, Issue 1-3, 2009, Pages 474-484

  Bjørkøy, Astrid ^a   Fiksdal, Liv ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Biofouling; Confocal laser scanning microscopy; Curved reference surface; Hollow fiber membranes; Image analysis

Indexed keywords

BIOFILM STRUCTURE; CONFOCAL LASER SCANNING; CONFOCAL LASER SCANNING MICROSCOPY; CURVED REFERENCE SURFACE; FLUOROCHROMES; HOLLOW FIBER MEMBRANES; MEMBRANE BIOFOULING; MEMBRANE SURFACE; STRUCTURAL PARAMETER;

BIOFILMS; BIOFILTERS; BIOFOULING; BIOMASS; CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FIBERS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LASERS; SCANNING;

MEMBRANES;

BIOFILM; BIOFOULING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LASER METHOD; MEMBRANE; MICROSCOPY; POROSITY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WATER TREATMENT;

EID: 67650760274     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2009.02.011     Document Type: Article

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