Improved ultrasonic cleaning of membranes with tandem frequency excitation

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 415-416, Issue , 2012, Pages 776-783

  Gonzalez Avila, Silvestre Roberto ^a   Prabowo, Firdaus ^a   Kumar, Anshuman ^a   Ohl, Claus Dieter ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

High speed video imaging; Membrane fouling; Ultrasound cleaning

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY EXCITATION; HIGH-SPEED VIDEO; MEMBRANE SURFACE; MICROSCOPIC BUBBLES; PURIFICATION PROCESS; SIMPLE METHOD; SMALL-SCALE EXPERIMENT; TRANSMEMBRANE PRESSURES; ULTRASOUND FREQUENCY; ULTRASOUND-CLEANING; WATER PURIFICATION;

HIGH SPEED CAMERAS; MEMBRANE FOULING; ULTRASONIC CLEANING; WATER SUPPLY;

ULTRASONICS;

ARTICLE; BIOFOULING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATION; FREQUENCY MODULATION; MEMBRANE; MEMBRANE FILTER; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; MICROFILTRATION; MICROSCOPY; PARTICLE SIZE; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSMEMBRANE PRESSURE; ULTRASOUND; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; WATER MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84864762884     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: 18733123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2012.05.069     Document Type: Article

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