Critical review of membrane bioreactor models - Part 2: Hydrodynamic and integrated models

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 122, Issue , 2012, Pages 107-118

  Naessens, W ^a   Maere, T ^a   Ratkovich, N ^b   Vedantam, S ^c   Nopens, I ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c NATIONAL CHEMICAL LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

CFD; Costs; Hydrodynamics; Integrated model; Modelling

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL REVIEW; DIFFERENT SCALE; HYDRODYNAMIC MODEL; INTEGRATED MODELS; KNOWLEDGE GAPS; MEMBRANE BIOREACTOR; MEMBRANE BIOREACTOR TECHNOLOGY; OPERATIONAL COSTS; OPTIMISATIONS;

BIOREACTORS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COSTS; INTEGRATION; MODELS; OPTIMIZATION;

HYDRODYNAMICS;

BIOREACTOR; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DECADAL VARIATION; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; HYDRODYNAMICS; LITERATURE REVIEW; MEMBRANE; OPTIMIZATION;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; BIOREACTOR DESIGN; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COST; FLAT SHEET MEMBRANE; FLOW RATE; FLUID FLOW; HOLLOW FIBER MEMBRANE; HOLLOW SHEET MEMBRANE; HYDRODYNAMICS; MEMBRANE MODEL; MEMBRANE REACTOR; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; MODEL; MULTITUBE MEMBRANE; PHYSICAL PHASE; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTOR MONITORING; REACTOR OPTIMIZATION; ROTATIONAL CROSS FLOW MEMBRANE; SHEAR STRESS; SIMULATION; VISCOSITY; WATER FLOW;

BIOREACTORS; HYDRODYNAMICS; KINETICS; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MODELS, ECONOMIC; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84866034898     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: 18732976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2012.05.071     Document Type: Article

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