Water reclamation using reverse osmosis: Analysis of fouling propagation given tertiary membrane filtration and MBR pretreatments

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 382, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 328-338

  Kent, Fraser C ^a   Farahbakhsh, Khosrow ^a   Mahendran, Basuvaraj ^a   Jaklewicz, Magdalena ^b   Liss, Steven N ^a,c   Zhou, Hongde ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b General Electric Company Canada   (Canada)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fouling; Membrane bioreactor; Membrane filtration; Reverse osmosis; Water reclamation

Indexed keywords

CONFOCAL LASER SCANNING MICROSCOPY; CONVENTIONAL ACTIVATED SLUDGES; CROSS FLOWS; EFFLUENT ORGANIC MATTER; FOLLOWING OPERATION; FOULING MECHANISMS; FTIR; MEMBRANE BIOREACTOR; MEMBRANE FILTRATION; MEMBRANE FILTRATIONS; MEMBRANE SURFACE; MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS; ORGANIC SPECIES; PRE-TREATMENT; PRE-TREATMENTS; REFLECTOMETRY;

BIOLOGICAL WATER TREATMENT; BIOREACTORS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; EFFLUENTS; EXPERIMENTS; FOULING; MEMBRANES; ORGANIC LASERS; OSMOSIS; PROTEINS; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER FILTRATION; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

MICROFILTRATION;

POLYSACCHARIDE;

ARTICLE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MEMBRANE FILTER; MEMBRANE REACTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 80052700269     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: 18733123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2011.08.028     Document Type: Article

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