Analysis of fouling mechanisms in anaerobic membrane bioreactors

Water Research

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2637-2650

  Charfi, Amine ^a,b   Ben Amar, Nihel ^a,b   Harmand, Jérôme ^c,d  

^a ENIT LAMSIN   (Tunisia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CARTHAGE   (Tunisia)

^c LABORATOIRE DE BIOTECHNOLOGIE DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^d INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

Anaerobic membrane bioreactor; Fouling mechanisms; Micro filtration; Ultrafiltration

Indexed keywords

BIOCONVERSION; BIOREACTORS; MEMBRANE FOULING; MEMBRANES; ULTRAFILTRATION;

ANAEROBIC MEMBRANE BIOREACTOR; DIFFERENT MECHANISMS; FOULING MECHANISMS; INTEGRATED MODELS; LONG-TERM EXPERIMENTS; MEMBRANE FOULING MECHANISMS; OPTIMIZATION AND CONTROL; OPTIMIZATION APPROACH;

MICROFILTRATION;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BIOREACTOR; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOULING; MEMBRANE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; ULTRAFILTRATION;

ANAEROBIC REACTOR; ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; BIOFOULING; BIOMECHANICS; CROSSFLOW FILTRATION; EXPERIMENT; FILTER CAKE; MANURE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; MEMBRANE REACTOR; MICROFILTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; SLUDGE; TEMPERATURE; TIME; ULTRAFILTRATION; WASTE WATER;

EID: 84859000858     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2012.02.021     Document Type: Article

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