Modeling of the submerged membrane bioreactor fouling by the combined pore constriction, pore blockage and cake formation mechanisms

Desalination

Volumn 279, Issue 1-3, 2011, Pages 127-134

  Wu, Jun ^a   He, Chengda ^a   Jiang, Xinyue ^a   Zhang, Miao ^a  

^a YANGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cake formation; Fouling model; Membrane bioreactor; Pore blockage; Pore constriction

Indexed keywords

CAKE FORMATION; FOULING MODEL; MEMBRANE BIOREACTOR; PORE BLOCKAGES; PORE CONSTRICTION;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS; BIOCONVERSION; BIOREACTORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

FOULING;

BIOREACTOR; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOULING; MEMBRANE; NUMERICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 80052344932     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2011.05.069     Document Type: Article

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