Fouling control in sugarcane juice ultrafiltration with surface modified polysulfone and polyethersulfone membranes

Desalination

Volumn 249, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1124-1131

  Saha, N K ^a   Balakrishnan, M ^a   Ulbricht, M ^b  

^a TERI UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fouling; Membrane cleaning; Membrane modification; Sugarcane juice; Ultrafiltration

Indexed keywords

CLEANING CYCLES; DEGREE OF GRAFTING; FLUX RECOVERY; FOULING CONTROL; FOULING MEMBRANES; IRRADIATION TIME; LOW DEGREE; MEMBRANE CLEANING; MEMBRANE MODIFICATION; MODIFIED MEMBRANES; MOLECULAR WEIGHT CUTOFF; POLY(ETHYLENE GLYCOL) METHACRYLATE; POLYETHERSULFONE MEMBRANE; POLYETHERSULFONES; SURFACE-MODIFIED; ULTRA-FILTRATION MEMBRANES; UV EXPOSURE; UV-PHOTOGRAFTING; WATER FLUX;

CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; FOULING; GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; POLYETHYLENE OXIDES; ULTRAFILTRATION;

MEMBRANES;

FOULING; MEMBRANE; POLYSACCHARIDE; ULTRAFILTRATION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EID: 71649111241     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2009.05.013     Document Type: Article

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