Effect of carriers on sludge characteristics and mitigation of membrane fouling in attached-growth membrane bioreactor

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 122, Issue , 2012, Pages 35-41

  Hu, Jin ^a   Ren, Hongqiang ^a   Xu, Ke ^a   Geng, Jinju ^a   Ding, Lili ^a   Yan, Xu ^a   Li, Kun ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Carriers; MBR; Membrane fouling; Sludge characteristics

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL EFFECTS; MBR; MEMBRANE BIOREACTOR; OPERATION TIME; PHYSICAL EFFECTS; SLUDGE CHARACTERISTICS; SLUDGE VOLUME INDEX; SOLUBLE MICROBIAL PRODUCTS; SUBMERGED MEMBRANE BIOREACTORS;

BIOREACTORS; CHARGE CARRIERS;

MEMBRANE FOULING;

BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; BIOFOULING; BIOREACTOR; GROWTH RATE; MEMBRANE; PARTICLE SIZE; PROTEIN; SLUDGE; VOLUME;

ARTICLE; BIOFOULING; FOULING CONTROL; MEMBRANE BIOREACTOR; MEMBRANE FOULING; MEMBRANE REACTOR; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLUDGE;

BIOFOULING; BIOPOLYMERS; BIOREACTORS; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; PARTICLE SIZE; SEWAGE; SOLUBILITY;

EID: 84866005937     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: 18732976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2012.05.029     Document Type: Article

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