Quantitative assessment of the efficacy of spiral-wound membrane cleaning procedures to remove biofilms

Water Research

Volumn 46, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 6369-6381

  Hijnen, W A M ^a   Castillo, C ^b   Brouwer Hanzens, A H ^a   Harmsen, D J H ^a   Cornelissen, E R ^a   van der Kooij, D ^a  

^a KWR WATERCYCLE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biofouling; Chemical agents; Removal of biofilms; Spiral wound membranes; Uniform biofilm samples

Indexed keywords

BIOFILMS; BIOFOULING; BIOMASS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; EFFICIENCY; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MEMBRANE TECHNOLOGY; MIXTURES; PILOT PLANTS; POLYVINYL CHLORIDES; SHEAR FLOW; SODIUM HYDROXIDE; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

CHEMICAL AGENT; EXTRA-CELLULAR POLYMERIC SUBSTANCES; PILOT PLANT EXPERIMENTS; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; QUANTITATIVE INFORMATION; REMOVAL OF BIOFILMS; SPIRAL WOUND MEMBRANES; UNIFORM BIOFILM SAMPLES;

CHEMICAL CLEANING;

EID: 84868301490     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2012.09.013     Document Type: Article

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