Monitoring protein fouling on polymeric membranes using ultrasonic frequency-domain reflectometry

Membranes

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 195-216

  Kujundzic, Elmira ^a   Greenberg, Alan R ^a   Fong, Robin ^b   Hernandez, Mark ^a  

^a University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

^b GENENCOR INTERNATIONAL INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Fouling; Microfiltration; Proteins; Ultrasonic frequency domain reflectometry

Indexed keywords

BODY FLUIDS; FILTRATION; FOULING; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; IN SITU PROCESSING; MEMBRANE FOULING; MEMBRANES; PORE SIZE; PROTEINS; PURIFICATION; REFLECTION; REFLECTOMETERS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONIC WAVES;

BOVINE SERUM ALBUMINS; COMMERCIAL MEMBRANES; FLAT SHEET MEMBRANES; MEMBRANE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MICRO-FILTRATION MEMBRANES; SIGNAL PROCESSING PROTOCOL; STATISTICAL METHODOLOGIES; ULTRASONIC FREQUENCY;

MICROFILTRATION;

EID: 80053189485     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20770375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/membranes1030195     Document Type: Article

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