Cleaning UF membranes with simple and formulated solutions

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 679-683

  Levitsky, Inna ^a   Duek, Aviv ^a   Naim, Ronen ^a   Arkhangelsky, Elizabeth ^a   Gitis, Vitaly ^a,b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

BSA; Cleaning efficiency; Cleaning intensity; PES; Protein separation; PVDF

Indexed keywords

BSA; CLEANING EFFICIENCY; PES; PROTEIN SEPARATION; PVDF;

CLEANING; MEMBRANES; PROTEINS; RESTORATION; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; ULTRAFILTRATION;

MICROFILTRATION;

EID: 83955162310     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2011.10.060     Document Type: Article

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