Combined organic-inorganic fouling of forward osmosis hollow fiber membranes

Water Research

Volumn 46, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 6329-6338

  Arkhangelsky, Elizabeth ^a,b   Wicaksana, Filicia ^b   Tang, Chuyang ^a,b   Al Rabiah, Abdulrahman A ^c   Al Zahrani, Saeed M ^c   Wang, Rong ^a,b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Alginate; Bovine serum albumin (BSA); Cleaning; Forward osmosis; Fouling mechanism; Organic inorganic fouling; Silica

Indexed keywords

ALGINATE; CLEANING; DRAG; FLOW VELOCITY; MAMMALS; MEMBRANE FOULING; OSMOSIS; SILICA; SILICA NANOPARTICLES; SODIUM ALGINATE;

BOVINE SERUM ALBUMINS; CROSSFLOW VELOCITIES; FORWARD OSMOSIS; FORWARD OSMOSIS MEMBRANE; FOULING MECHANISMS; HOLLOW FIBER MEMBRANES; HYDRODYNAMIC REGIME; ORGANIC-INORGANIC FOULING;

OSMOSIS MEMBRANES;

EID: 84868302561     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2012.09.003     Document Type: Article

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