Relationships between mixed liquor properties, operating conditions and fouling on two full-scale MBR plants

Desalination

Volumn 272, Issue 1-3, 2011, Pages 9-19

  Delrue, F ^a,b   Stricker, A E ^a   Mietton Peuchot, M ^b   Racault, Y ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

Fouling; Full scale; Membrane bioreactor; Mixed liquor properties; Operating conditions

Indexed keywords

AERATION TANKS; AIR FLOW-RATE; BIOLOGICAL PROCESS; FILTRATION PERFORMANCE; FILTRATION PROCESS; FULL-SCALE; FULL-SCALE PLANTS; MEMBRANE BIOREACTOR; MIXED LIQUOR PROPERTIES; OPERATING CONDITION; OPERATING CONDITIONS; OPERATING STRATEGY; PROTEIN CONCENTRATIONS; SET-POINT; SLUDGE VOLUME INDEX; SUDDEN CHANGE;

AIR; BIOCONVERSION; BIOFILTRATION; BIOREACTORS; FOULING; IMPACT RESISTANCE; MICROFILTRATION; SEWAGE TANKS;

AIR FILTERS;

BIOREACTOR; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FILTRATION; FOULING; MEMBRANE; PROTEIN; SLUDGE;

EID: 79952622855     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2010.12.056     Document Type: Article

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