Cleaning membranes with focused ultrasound beams for drinking water treatment

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1195-1198

  Lu, Jian Yu ^a   Du, Xu ^a   Lipscomb, Glenn ^a  

^a Toledo   (United States)

Author keywords

Drinking water treatment; Focused ultrasound beam; Membrane cleaning

Indexed keywords

CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); DECONTAMINATION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; INDICATORS (CHEMICAL); MEMBRANE FOULING; MEMBRANE TECHNOLOGY; POTABLE WATER; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS; WATER POLLUTION;

CHEMICAL EROSION; FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; HIGH ENERGY CONSUMPTION; LARGE SURFACE AREA; MEDICAL ULTRASOUND; MEMBRANE CLEANING; ULTRASOUND METHODS; WATER PRODUCTION;

CHEMICAL CLEANING;

EID: 77952792347     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2009.5441719     Document Type: Conference Paper

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