Critical flux and chemical cleaning-in-place during the long-term operation of a pilot-scale submerged membrane bioreactor for municipal wastewater treatment

Water Research

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 863-871

  Wei, Chun Hai ^a,b   Huang, Xia ^a   Ben Aim, Roger ^c   Yamamoto, Kazuo ^d   Amy, Gary ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chemical cleaning in place; Critical flux; Membrane fouling; Municipal wastewater; Submerged membrane bioreactor

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BIOCONVERSION; BIOREACTORS; CHEMICAL CLEANING; EFFLUENTS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MEMBRANE FOULING; MEMBRANES; MICROFILTRATION; QUALITY CONTROL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SODIUM COMPOUNDS; SPECTROMETERS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER QUALITY;

CHEMICAL CLEANING-IN-PLACE; CLEANING IN PLACE; CRITICAL FLUX; EFFLUENT QUALITY; MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT; MUNICIPAL WASTEWATERS; PILOT SCALE; SUBCRITICAL FLUX; SUBMERGED MEMBRANE BIOREACTORS; TRANSMEMBRANE PRESSURES;

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS;

HYPOCHLORITE SODIUM;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BIOREACTOR; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FILTRATION; FLUX MEASUREMENT; FOULING; FTIR SPECTROSCOPY; GEL; MEMBRANE; MICROSCOPY; POROSITY; PRESSURE EFFECT; REFLECTANCE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; ATTENUATED TOTAL REFLECTANCE ACCESSORY; BIOREACTOR; CHEMICAL CLEANING IN PLACE; CLEANING; CRITICAL FLUX; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROMETER; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; FIELD EMISSION SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FILTRATION; FOULING CONTROL; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MICROSCOPY; PILOT STUDY; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SUBMERGED MEMBRANE BIOREACTOR; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

CONCENTRATION; EFFLUENTS; MEMBRANES; QUALITY CONTROL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SODIUM; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROSCOPY; WASTE WATERS; WATER QUALITY; WATER TREATMENT;

EID: 78650414937     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2010.09.021     Document Type: Article

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