Influence of organic and inorganic flocculants on physical-chemical properties of biomass and membrane-fouling rate

Water Research

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1627-1635

  Ji, Jing ^a,b   Qiu, Jiangping ^a   Wai, Nyunt ^b   Wong, Fook Sin ^b   Li, Yaozhong ^b  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Flocculants; Membrane fouling; Submerged membrane bioreactor; Sustainable filtration time

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM SULFATE; BIOREACTORS; CHLORINATION; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; FLOCCULATION; FRACTAL DIMENSION; IRON COMPOUNDS; MEMBRANES; MICROFILTRATION; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

EFFECT OF ADDITION; FILTRATION TIME; FLOCCULANT; INORGANIC FLOCCULANT; MEMBRANE FOULING RATES; ORGANICS; PHYSICAL-CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; SOLUBLE MICROBIAL PRODUCTS; SUBMERGED MEMBRANE BIOREACTORS; SUSTAINABLE FILTRATION TIME;

MEMBRANE FOULING;

ALUMINUM CHLORIDE; ALUMINUM SULFATE; CHITOSAN; FERRIC CHLORIDE; FERRIC SULFATE; INORGANIC COMPOUND; ORGANIC COMPOUND; POLYACRYLAMIDE; POLYMER;

BIOMASS; BIOREACTOR; FILTRATION; FLOCCULATION; FOULING; MEMBRANE; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; BIOFOULING; BIOMASS; BIOREACTOR; FILTRATION; HYDROPHOBICITY; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTY; TIME; VISCOSITY;

EID: 76749096767     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2009.11.013     Document Type: Article

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