The importance of fluid dynamics for MBR fouling mitigation

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 122, Issue , 2012, Pages 50-61

  Böhm, Lutz ^a   Drews, Anja ^b   Prieske, Helmut ^a   Bérubé, Pierre R ^c   Kraume, Matthias ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Air scour; Fouling; Hydrodynamic optimization; MBR design; Shear stress

Indexed keywords

AIR SCOURING; AIR SPARGING; EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL METHODS; FILTRATION CYCLES; FOULING CONTROL; FOULING MITIGATION; FOULING RATE; HYDRODYNAMIC FLOW FIELDS; MEMBRANE MODULE; MULTIPHASE FLUIDS; TANK GEOMETRY; TURBULENT EDDY;

AIR; FOULING; MICROFILTRATION; MULTIPHASE FLOW; OPTIMIZATION; SHEAR STRESS;

FLUID DYNAMICS;

FILTRATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; GUIDELINE; HYDRODYNAMICS; MEMBRANE; SHEAR STRESS;

ARTICLE; CROSSFLOW FILTRATION; FOULING CONTROL; FOULING MITIGATION; GEOMETRY; HYDRODYNAMICS; MEMBRANE BIOREACTOR; MEMBRANE REACTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEAR STRESS; TURBULENT FLOW;

BIOFOULING; BIOREACTORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; RHEOLOGY;

EID: 84866029052     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: 18732976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2012.05.069     Document Type: Article

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