Monitoring reverse osmosis performance: Conductivity versus fluorescence excitation-emission matrix (EEM)

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 428, Issue , 2013, Pages 205-211

  Pype, Marie Laure ^a,b   Patureau, Dominique ^b   Wery, Nathalie ^b   Poussade, Yvan ^c,d   Gernjak, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b LABORATOIRE DE BIOTECHNOLOGIE DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^c Seqwater   (Australia)

^d Veolia Water Australia   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conductivity profiling; Fluorescence spectroscopy; Membrane integrity; Reverse osmosis; Size exclusion chromatography

Indexed keywords

BLUE SHIFT; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTERS; EXCITATION EMISSION MATRICES; FLUORESCENCE DETECTION; FLUORESCENCE EXCITATION EMISSION MATRIX; FLUORESCENCE MEASUREMENTS; FULL-SCALE PLANTS; HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT; HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT COMPOUNDS; HUMIC SUBSTANCES; INDIVIDUAL PRESSURE VESSELS; MEMBRANE INTEGRITY; MEMBRANE PROCESS; REGIONAL INTEGRATION; RO MEMBRANE; SENSITIVE TECHNIQUES; WATER RECLAMATION PLANTS;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; MEMBRANES; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SIZE EXCLUSION CHROMATOGRAPHY;

FLUORESCENCE;

DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; HUMIC ACID; ORGANIC MATTER;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL RECLAMATION; EXCITATION EMISSION MATRIX; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; FULL SCALE WATER RECLAMATION PLANT; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; MEASUREMENT; MEMBRANE; MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PARTICLE SIZE; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE OSMOSIS; WASTE WATER RECYCLING; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT;

EID: 84870943791     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: 18733123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2012.10.027     Document Type: Article

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