Comprehensive experimental studies of early-stage membrane scaling during nanofiltration

Desalination

Volumn 283, Issue , 2011, Pages 40-51

  Cobry, Keith D ^a   Yuan, Zhi ^a   Gilron, Jack ^b   Bright, Victor M ^a   Krantz, William B ^c   Greenberg, Alan R ^a  

^a University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Membrane fouling; Membrane fouling characterization; Nanofiltration; Real time measurement; Ultrasonic time domain reflectometry

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; DESALINATION; ENERGY CONSERVATION; FILTRATION; FOULING; MEMBRANE FOULING; MEMBRANES; MICROFILTRATION; NANOFILTRATION; NANOFILTRATION MEMBRANES; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; PERMITTIVITY MEASUREMENT; REFLECTION; REFLECTOMETERS; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC TESTING; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; WATER FILTRATION;

CROSS FLOW FILTRATION; DELAYED INFORMATION; FOULING CHARACTERIZATION; IN- SITU MONITORING; NONDESTRUCTIVE METHODS; REAL TIME MEASUREMENTS; ULTRASONIC TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY (UTDR); ULTRASONIC TIME-DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

DESALINATION; FILTRATION; FOULING; MEMBRANE; OSMOSIS; SEAWATER; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY;

EID: 84861531993     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2011.04.053     Document Type: Article

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