Role of initially formed cake layers on limiting membrane fouling in membrane bioreactors

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 118, Issue , 2012, Pages 589-593

  Wu, Bing ^a   Kitade, Tamotsu ^a   Chong, Tzyy Haur ^a   Uemura, Tadahiro ^a   Fane, Anthony G ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Extracellular polymeric substances; Fouling rate; Soluble polysaccharides; Surface charge; Transparent exopolymer particles

Indexed keywords

AMIDE GROUPS; CAKE LAYER; EXTRA-CELLULAR POLYMERIC SUBSTANCES; FOULANT ANALYSIS; FOULING CONTROL; FOULING RATE; FT-IR SPECTRUM; MEMBRANE BIOREACTOR; SOLUBLE SUBSTANCES; TRANSPARENT EXOPOLYMER PARTICLES;

AMIDES; MEMBRANE FOULING; POLYSACCHARIDES; SURFACE CHARGE; ZETA POTENTIAL;

MEMBRANES;

POLYSACCHARIDE;

BIOFOULING; BIOREACTOR; MEMBRANE; POLYSACCHARIDE; SOLUBILITY;

ARTICLE; FOULING CONTROL; MEMBRANE REACTOR; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ZETA POTENTIAL;

BIOFOULING; BIOREACTORS; FILTRATION; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; POLYSACCHARIDES; PRESSURE; SOLUBILITY;

EID: 84863520014     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: 18732976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2012.05.016     Document Type: Article

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