The performance of polyamide nanofiltration membrane for long-term operation in an integrated membrane seawater pretreatment system

Desalination

Volumn 296, Issue , 2012, Pages 30-36

  Song, Yuefei ^a   Su, Baowei ^a   Gao, Xueli ^a   Gao, Congjie ^a  

^a Ocean University of China   (China)

Author keywords

Chemical cleaning; Inorganic fouling; Integrated membrane system; Long term performance; Nanofiltration seawater softening; Ultrafiltration pretreatment

Indexed keywords

ACID CLEANING; CLEANING EFFICIENCY; CLEANING PROCEDURES; DIVALENT IONS; LONG TERM PERFORMANCE; LONG-TERM OPERATION; MEMBRANE SYSTEM; NAOH CLEANINGS; NF MEMBRANES; OPERATING TIME; PERMEATION FLUXES; POLYAMIDE NANOFILTRATION MEMBRANES; PRE-TREATMENT; SEAWATER DESALINATION; SEAWATER PRETREATMENT; STABILITY INDICES; TOC CONCENTRATIONS; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; ULTRAFILTRATION PRETREATMENT;

CITRIC ACID; DESALINATION; FOULING; INTEGRATION; NANOFILTRATION; NANOFILTRATION MEMBRANES; PERMEATION; SEAWATER; ULTRAFILTRATION; WATER FILTRATION;

CHEMICAL CLEANING;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DESALINATION; FOULING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SEAWATER; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; ULTRAFILTRATION;

EID: 84861344071     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2012.03.024     Document Type: Article

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