Correlating membrane fouling with sludge characteristics in membrane bioreactors: An especial interest in EPS and sludge morphology analysis

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 102, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 8820-8827

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

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b LIAONING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Autoregressive exogenous model; Extracellular polymeric substances; Image analysis; Membrane fouling; Sludge morphology

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION TESTS; AUTOREGRESSIVE EXOGENOUS MODELS; EXTRA-CELLULAR POLYMERIC SUBSTANCES; FILAMENTOUS BULKING; FILTRATION CHARACTERISTICS; FOULING BEHAVIOR; MEMBRANE ADSORPTION; MEMBRANE BIOREACTOR; SLUDGE CHARACTERISTICS; SLUDGE MORPHOLOGY; SLUDGE VOLUME INDEX; SUBMERGED MEMBRANE BIOREACTORS;

ADSORPTION; ASPECT RATIO; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BIOREACTORS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEMBRANE FOULING; MORPHOLOGY; POLYMERS;

MEMBRANES;

POLYMER;

ADSORPTION; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BIOREACTOR; FILTRATION; FOULING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEMBRANE; POLYMER; SLUDGE;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BIOFILTRATION; BIOFOULING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MEMBRANE REACTOR; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLUDGE;

ADSORPTION; BIOREACTORS; FILTRATION; FLOCCULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; POLYMERS; SEWAGE;

EID: 80052364549     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: 18732976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2011.07.010     Document Type: Article

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