Transient performance of MBR with flux enhancing polymer addition

Separation Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 982-992

  Zhang, Jin Song ^a,b   Zhou, Ji Ti ^b   Su, Yu Chun ^c   Fane, Anthony G ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Flocculant; Membrane bioreactor (MBR); Membrane fouling; Performance enhancer (MPE50); Polymeric membrane

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; CONTINUOUS MAINTENANCE; CRITICAL FLUX; FLOCCULANT; LONG-TERM EXPERIMENTS; LOW LEVEL; MEMBRANE BIOREACTOR; MEMBRANE BIOREACTOR (MBR); MEMBRANE PERFORMANCE; PARTICLE-SIZE DATA; STABLE STATE; START-UPS; STEADY STATE; SUBMERGED MEMBRANE BIOREACTORS; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; TRANSIENT PERFORMANCE;

BIOREACTORS; FLOCCULATION; MAINTENANCE; MEMBRANE FOULING; ORGANIC CARBON; POLYMERIC MEMBRANES; SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT;

POLYMERS;

FLOCCULATION; FOULING; MEMBRANE; PARTICLE SIZE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PHASE SEPARATION; REACTOR;

EID: 77951669891     PISSN: 01496395     EISSN: 15205754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01496391003667088     Document Type: Article

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