Pore blockage of organic fouling layer with highly heterogeneous structure in membrane filtration: Role of minor organic foulants

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 411-412, Issue , 2012, Pages 30-34

  Yang, Zhen ^a   Juang, Yu Chuan ^b   Lee, Duu Jong ^b,c   Duan, Yuan Yuan ^a  

^a Tsinghua University   (China)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

CLSM; Fouling layer; Membrane filtration; Pore blockage

Indexed keywords

CAKE PERMEABILITY; CAKE RESISTANCE; CLSM; CONFOCAL LASER SCANNING MICROSCOPE; D-GLUCOPYRANOSE; FILTER CAKES; FOULANTS; FOULING LAYERS; HETEROGENEOUS STRUCTURES; LARGE PORES; LOW CONCENTRATIONS; MEMBRANE FILTRATIONS; ORGANIC FOULING; PERMEATE FLOW; PORE BLOCKAGES; STAINING TECHNIQUES; THREE COMPONENT;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; EFFLUENTS; MICROFILTRATION; NUCLEIC ACIDS; POLYSACCHARIDES;

FOULING;

ALPHA GLUCOPYRANOSE; BETA GLUCOPYRANOSE; DEXTRO GLUCOPYRANOSE; NUCLEIC ACID; POLYSACCHARIDE; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BIOFOULING; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; FILTER CAKE; MEMBRANE FILTER; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; POLLUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84861532035     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: 18733123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2012.04.010     Document Type: Article

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