Performance evaluation of different ultrafiltration membranes for the reclamation and reuse of secondary effluent

Desalination

Volumn 279, Issue 1-3, 2011, Pages 383-389

  Muthukumaran, Shobha ^a   Nguyen, Duy Anh ^a   Baskaran, Kanagaratnam ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Permeate flux; Rejection coefficient; Secondary wastewater; Ultrafiltration; Water reuse

Indexed keywords

CROSS FLOWS; FEED COMPOSITIONS; FLUX RECOVERY; FOULING RESISTANCE; MEMBRANE RESISTANCE; MEMBRANE SYSTEM; MEMBRANE TYPES; OPERATING PARAMETERS; OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PERMEATE FLUX; PILOT SCALE; POLLUTION INDEX; RECLAMATION AND REUSE; REJECTION COEFFICIENTS; RESISTANCE-IN-SERIES MODEL; SECONDARY EFFLUENT; SECONDARY WASTEWATER; SYNTHETIC WASTE WATER; TOTAL RESISTANCE; TRANSMEMBRANE PRESSURES; TREATED WASTEWATER; TUBULAR CERAMIC MEMBRANES; UF MEMBRANES; ULTRAFILTRATION MEMBRANES; WATER REUSE;

CERAMIC MATERIALS; CERAMIC MEMBRANES; EFFLUENTS; EXPERIMENTS; MICROFILTRATION; POLYMERIC MEMBRANES; POLYMERS; SECONDARY RECOVERY; THERMOMECHANICAL PULPING PROCESS; ULTRAFILTRATION; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER FILTRATION; WATER SUPPLY;

WASTEWATER RECLAMATION;

MAINTENANCE; MEMBRANE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; ULTRAFILTRATION; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

EID: 80052368809     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2011.06.040     Document Type: Article

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