Impact of membrane bioreactor operating conditions on fouling behavior of reverse osmosis membranes in MBR-RO processes

Desalination

Volumn 311, Issue , 2013, Pages 37-45

  Wu, Bing ^a   Kitade, Tamotsu ^b   Chong, Tzyy Haur ^a   Uemura, Tadahiro ^b   Fane, Anthony G ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b Toray Singapore Water Research Center   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Adenosine triphosphate; Extracellular polymeric substances; Soluble polysaccharides; Transmembrane pressure; Transparent exopolymer particles

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL CELLS; CONFOCAL LASER SCANNING MICROSCOPY; EXCITATION-EMISSION MATRIX FLUORESCENCES; EXTRA-CELLULAR POLYMERIC SUBSTANCES; FATE AND TRANSPORT; FEED LINE; FOULANTS; FOULING BEHAVIOR; FOULING RATE; MEMBRANE BIOREACTOR; OPERATING CONDITION; ORGANIC SUBSTANCES; RO CONCENTRATE; RO MEMBRANE; TRANSMEMBRANE PRESSURES; TRANSPARENT EXOPOLYMER PARTICLES;

ADENOSINETRIPHOSPHATE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; POLYSACCHARIDES; REVERSE OSMOSIS;

FOULING;

BIOREACTOR; FOULING; MEMBRANE; MICROORGANISM; OSMOSIS; POLYMER; POLYSACCHARIDE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84871500119     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2012.11.020     Document Type: Article

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