Engineering of an MBR supernatant fouling layer by fine particles addition: A possible way to control cake compressibility

Water Research

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 2060-2072

  Teychene, Benoît ^a   Guigui, Christelle ^b   Cabassud, Corinne ^c  

^a INSA   (France)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Fouling layer engineering; Membrane bioreactor; Membrane fouling reducers; Wastewater

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; ACTIVATED CARBON TREATMENT; COMPRESSIBILITY; MEMBRANE FOULING; MEMBRANES; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

CAKE COMPRESSIBILITIES; FILTRATION PERFORMANCE; FINE-PARTICLES; FOULING LAYER ENGINEERING; FOULING LAYERS; MEMBRANE BIOREACTOR; MEMBRANE FOULING REDUCER; PARTICLE ADDITION; SUPERNATANTS; TRANSMEMBRANE PRESSURES;

BIOREACTORS;

ACTIVATED CARBON; MELAMINE; POLYMER; POLYSTYRENE; RESIN;

BIOENGINEERING; BIOFOULING; BIOREACTOR; COMPRESSIBILITY; FILTRATION; MEMBRANE; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; COMPRESSION; ENGINEERING; FOULING CONTROL; MACROMOLECULE; MEMBRANE FILTER; MEMBRANE REACTOR; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERNATANT; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

EID: 79951581530     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2010.12.018     Document Type: Article

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