Filterability assessment in membrane bioreactors using an in-situ filtration test cell

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 61, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2809-2816

  De La Torre, Teresa ^a,d   Mottschall, Moritz ^b   Lesjean, Boris ^a   Drews, Anja ^b   Iheanaetu, Andrew ^c   Kraume, Matthias ^b  

^a Berlin Centre of Competence for Water   (Germany)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d Acciona Agua   (Spain)

Author keywords

Critical flux; Filterability; Flux stepping; Fouling; Method membrane bioreactors

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; CRITICAL FLUX; FILTERABILITY; FILTRATION PERFORMANCE; FILTRATION TESTS; FLAT-SHEET MEMBRANE; HYSTERESIS CURVE; IN-SITU; INFORMATION CONCERNING; MEMBRANE BIOREACTOR; MEMBRANE FILTRATIONS; OPERATING CONDITION; REAL TIME; SLUDGE COMPOSITION; TEST CELL;

BIOACTIVITY; BIOCONVERSION; BIOFILTRATION; BIOREACTORS; FOULING; MEMBRANES;

MICROFILTRATION;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; BIOREACTOR; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CRITICAL FLOW; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FILTRATION; FOULING; HYSTERESIS; IN SITU TEST; MEMBRANE; MONITORING; REAL TIME;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ARTICLE; BIOREACTOR; FILTRATION; FOULING CONTROL; GERMANY; IN SITU FILTRATION TEST CELL; MEMBRANE BIOREACTOR; NONHUMAN; POLLUTION MONITORING; SUPERNATANT; TANK; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER TRANSPORT;

BIOREACTORS; FILTRATION; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; SEWAGE; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID;

EID: 77954503405     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2010.084     Document Type: Article

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