A systematic study of soluble microbial products and their fouling impacts in membrane bioreactors

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 168, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1093-1102

  Tian, Yu ^a   Chen, Lin ^a   Zhang, Sai ^b   Zhang, Shuai ^a  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b LIAONING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Biomass associated products; Fouling potential; Membrane bioreactor; Modeling; Soluble microbial products; Utilization associated products

Indexed keywords

FOULING POTENTIAL; MEMBRANE BIOREACTOR; MODELING; SOLUBLE MICROBIAL PRODUCTS; UTILIZATION-ASSOCIATED PRODUCTS;

BIOCONVERSION; BIOMASS; BIOREACTORS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MEMBRANES; POLYSACCHARIDES; PROTEINS;

FOULING;

EID: 79953761234     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2011.01.090     Document Type: Article

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