Membrane fouling in a submerged membrane bioreactor treating high strength municipal wastewater

Desalination and Water Treatment

Volumn 7, Issue 1-3, 2009, Pages 267-274

  Birima, Ahmed H ^a   Mohammed, Thamer A ^b   Mohd Noor, Megat Johari Megat ^b   Muyibi, Suleyman A ^c   Idris, Azni ^b   Nagaoka, H ^d   Ahmed, J ^e   Ghani, L A Abdul ^b  

^a Universiti Tenaga Nasional   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^c INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^d TOKYO CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA TERENGGANU   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Membrane bioreactor (MBR); Membrane fouling; Organic loading rate (OLR); Sludge retention time (SRT)

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954206631     PISSN: 19443994     EISSN: 19443986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5004/dwt.2009.719     Document Type: Article

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