Water reclamation using membranes: Permeate water quality comparison of MBR and tertiary membrane filtration

Desalination

Volumn 274, Issue 1-3, 2011, Pages 237-245

  Kent, Fraser C ^a   Citulski, Joel ^a   Farahbakhsh, Khosrow ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Effluent organic matter; Membrane bioreactor; Membrane filtration; Wastewater treatment; Water reclamation

Indexed keywords

ABSORBANCES; ANALYTES; CONVENTIONAL ACTIVATED SLUDGES; EFFLUENT ORGANIC MATTER; FULL-SCALE PLANTS; LOW PRESSURE MEMBRANES; MEMBRANE BIOREACTOR; MEMBRANE FILTRATION; MEMBRANE FILTRATIONS; MIXED LIQUOR SUSPENDED SOLIDS CONCENTRATION; ORGANICS; PERMEATE QUALITY; PILOT SCALE; PILOT-SCALE MEMBRANES; SECONDARY EFFLUENT; SOLIDS RETENTION TIME; TOC CONCENTRATIONS; WASTEWATER EFFLUENTS; WATER RECLAMATION;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS; BIOCONVERSION; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOLOGICAL WATER TREATMENT; BIOREACTORS; CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); EFFLUENT TREATMENT; EFFLUENTS; MEMBRANE TECHNOLOGY; MICROFILTRATION; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PILOT PLANTS; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER FILTRATION; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

WASTEWATER RECLAMATION;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; BIOREACTOR; EFFLUENT; FILTRATION; MEMBRANE; ORGANIC MATTER; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

EID: 79955483627     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2011.02.019     Document Type: Article

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