Rehabilitation of fouled membrane from natural rubber skim latex concentration through membrane autopsy and ultrasonication enhanced membrane cleaning procedure

Desalination

Volumn 286, Issue , 2012, Pages 235-241

  Veerasamy, D ^a,b   Ismail, A F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b RUBBER RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Cleaning cycle; Cleaning strategies; Deionised water flux tests; Membrane fouling; Membrane permeability; Ultrasonic application

Indexed keywords

ACIDIC SOLUTIONS; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROPHOTOMETER; ATTENUATED TOTAL REFLECTION SPECTROSCOPY; CHEMICAL NATURE; CHEMICAL SOLUTIONS; CLEANING CYCLES; CLEANING PROCEDURES; CLEANING PROTOCOLS; CLEANING STRATEGIES; CROSS FLOWS; DEIONISED WATER FLUX TESTS; ELEVATED TEMPERATURE; FLUX RECOVERY; FOULANTS; MEMBRANE AUTOPSIES; MEMBRANE CLEANING; MEMBRANE FOULANTS; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MEMBRANE SURFACE; POLYVINYLIDENE FLUORIDES; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SEM IMAGE; SKIM LATEX; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; ULTRA-FILTRATION MEMBRANES; ULTRA-SONICATION; WATER FLUX;

ALKALINITY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DEIONIZED WATER; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; LATEXES; MEMBRANE FOULING; MEMBRANES; ORGANIC CARBON; RUBBER; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRAFILTRATION; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

CHEMICAL CLEANING;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FOULING; MEMBRANE; PERMEABILITY; RUBBER; TEMPERATURE; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; ULTRAFILTRATION; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 84856055613     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2011.11.028     Document Type: Article

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