The formation and characterisation of an asymmetric nanofiltration membrane for ammonia-nitrogen removal: Effect of shear rate

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 101, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1459-1465

  Ali, Nora'aini ^a   Halim, N Syazana A ^a   Jusoh, A ^a   Endut, Azizah ^b  

^a UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA TERENGGANU   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITI SULTAN ZAINAL ABIDIN   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Ammonia nitrogen removal; Nanofiltration; Polyethersulfone; Shear rate; Theoretical models

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; AQUACULTURE; FABRICATION; MEMBRANE TECHNOLOGY; MEMBRANES; NANOFILTRATION; NITROGEN; NITROGEN REMOVAL; SEPARATION; SHEAR DEFORMATION; SHEAR FLOW; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; ETHERS; NANOFILTRATION MEMBRANES;

AMMONIA NITROGEN REMOVAL; AQUACULTURE WASTEWATER; FABRICATION PARAMETERS; IRREVERSIBLE THERMODYNAMICS; MEMBRANE FABRICATION; POLYETHERSULFONES; SEPARATION PERFORMANCE; SOLUTION-DIFFUSION MODEL; AMMONIA-NITROGEN; AQUACULTURE SYSTEMS; CASTING RATE; CASTING SPEED; MEMBRANE MORPHOLOGY; MEMBRANE PERFORMANCE; PERMEATION EXPERIMENTS; PURE WATER; STERIC HINDRANCES; STRUCTURAL PARAMETER; THEORETICAL MODELS;

NANOFILTRATION MEMBRANES; SHEAR DEFORMATION;

AMMONIA; NITROGEN; POLYETHERSULFONE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; WATER; NANOMATERIAL; POLYMER; SULFONE;

AMMONIUM; AQUACULTURE EFFLUENT; AQUACULTURE SYSTEM; ASYMMETRY; DIFFUSION; KETONE; MEMBRANE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; SHEAR STRAIN; THERMODYNAMICS; ULTRAFILTRATION; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT; ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY; AMMONIA; FILTRATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NITROGEN; SEPARATION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; AQUACULTURE; ARTICLE; DIFFUSION; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MORPHOLOGY; NANOFABRICATION; NANOFILTRATION; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; SHEAR RATE; SOLUTE; STEREOSPECIFICITY; THERMODYNAMICS; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; FILTRATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; PERMEABILITY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; MEMBRANE BIOLOGY; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

AMMONIA; DIFFUSION; FILTRATION; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; NITROGEN; PERMEABILITY; POLYMERS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STRESS, MECHANICAL; SULFONES;

EID: 77951209919     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2009.08.070     Document Type: Article

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