Contrasting clogging in granular media filters, soils, and dead-end membranes

Journal of Environmental Engineering

Volumn 136, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 475-480

  Mays, David C ^a  

^a The University of Colorado Denver   (United States)

Author keywords

Clogging; Filters; Fouling; Groundwater; Hydraulic conductivity; Hydrogeology; Membranes; Soil permeability

Indexed keywords

CLOGGING; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; DEPOSIT MORPHOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES; FILTERS; GRANULAR MEDIA FILTERS; PAPER DOCUMENTS; POROUS MEDIA; SOIL PERMEABILITY; SOIL SCIENCE;

AGRICULTURE; DEPOSITS; FLOCCULATION; GRANULAR MATERIALS; GROUNDWATER; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROGEOLOGY; INITIATORS (CHEMICAL); PETROGRAPHY; POROUS MATERIALS; SOILS;

FRACTAL DIMENSION;

COLLOID; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FILTER; FLOCCULATION; GRANULAR MEDIUM; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROGEOLOGY; MEMBRANE; MODEL TEST; PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIUM;

EID: 77956249160     PISSN: 07339372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)EE.1943-7870.0000173     Document Type: Article

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