Foulant analysis of a reverse osmosis membrane used pretreated seawater

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 428, Issue , 2013, Pages 434-444

  Jeong, Sanghyun ^a   Kim, Sung Jo ^b   Hee Kim, Lan ^b   Seop Shin, Myung ^b   Vigneswaran, Saravanamuthu ^a   Vinh Nguyen, Tien ^a   Kim, In S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Adsorption; Coagulation; Foulants; Microfiltration; Reverse osmosis

Indexed keywords

AROMATICITIES; BIOLOGICAL FOULING; BIOMASS ACTIVITY; CELL VIABILITY; ENVIRONMENTAL SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPIES (ESEM); EXTRACELLULAR POLYMERIC SUBSTANCES; FLUORESCENCE EXCITATION EMISSION MATRIX; FOULANT ANALYSIS; FOULANTS; HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT; INFRARED SPECTROMETRY; LOW PRESSURE MEMBRANES; ORGANIC REMOVAL; PRE-TREATMENTS; RO MEMBRANE; SUBMERGED MEMBRANE; ZETA POTENTIAL MEASUREMENTS;

ADSORPTION; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BIOPOLYMERS; CHARACTERIZATION; COAGULATION; CONTACT ANGLE; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; HYBRID SYSTEMS; MEMBRANES; MICROFILTRATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEAWATER;

REVERSE OSMOSIS;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BIOPOLYMER; SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BIOFOULING; CELL COUNT; CONTACT ANGLE; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MEMBRANE; MICROFILTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECTROSCOPY; ZETA POTENTIAL;

EID: 84870881181     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: 18733123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2012.11.007     Document Type: Article

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