Assessment of various membrane fouling indexes under seawater conditions

Desalination

Volumn 247, Issue 1-3, 2009, Pages 247-259

  Hong, Keewoong ^a   Lee, Sangyoup ^a   Choi, Soohoon ^a   Yu, Youngbeom ^a   Hong, Seungkwan ^a   Moon, Jihee ^b   Sohn, Jinsik ^c   Yang, Jeongseok ^c  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

^b Kolon Engineering & Construction Company Ltd   (South Korea)

^c Kookmin University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Flow field flow fractionation (Fl FFF); Fouling index; Modified fouling index (MFI); Silt density index (SDI); TDS effect

Indexed keywords

FLOW FIELD-FLOW FRACTIONATION (FL-FFF); FOULING INDEX; MODIFIED FOULING INDEX (MFI); SILT DENSITY INDEX (SDI); TDS EFFECT;

DESALINATION; FLOW FIELDS; FRACTIONATION; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MEMBRANE FOULING; MEMBRANES; PORE SIZE; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SEAWATER; SILT; SURFACE TREATMENT; WATER FILTRATION;

MICROFILTRATION;

DESALINATION; MEMBRANE; SALINITY; SEAWATER;

EID: 69549096224     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2008.12.029     Document Type: Article

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