Impact of gas bubbling and backflushing on fouling control and membrane cleaning

Desalination

Volumn 266, Issue 1-3, 2011, Pages 154-161

  Qaisrani, T M ^a   Samhaber, W M ^a  

^a JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Backflushing; Fouling control; Gas bubbling; Membrane cleaning; Microfiltration flat sheet membrane

Indexed keywords

AIR BUBBLING; BACK-FLUSHING; FEED STREAMS; FILTRATION EFFICIENCY; FILTRATION TECHNIQUES; FLAT SHEETS; FOULING CONTROL; FOULING REDUCTION; GAS BUBBLING; HIGHER EFFICIENCY; INTEGRAL PART; MEMBRANE CLEANING; MEMBRANE SURFACE; MICRO-FILTRATION MEMBRANES; MICROFILTRATION SYSTEMS; MINIMUM TIME; PARTICLE DEPOSITIONS; PERMEATE FLUX; REGENERATION EFFICIENCY; SEPARATION PROCESS;

AIR; AIR CLEANERS; BUBBLE FORMATION; CLEANING; EXPERIMENTS; GAS PERMEABLE MEMBRANES; MEMBRANE FOULING;

MICROFILTRATION;

BUBBLE; FILTRATION; FLUSHING; FOULING; MEMBRANE; YEAST;

EID: 78649671732     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2010.08.019     Document Type: Article

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