Chemical foam cleaning as an alternative for flux recovery in dynamic filtration processes

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 431, Issue , 2013, Pages 19-27

  Gahleitner, B ^a   Loderer, C ^a   Fuchs, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Chemical cleaning; Dynamic membrane filtration; Foamed cleaning agents; MBR

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL FOAM CLEANING; CLEANING AGENTS; CLEANING EFFICIENCY; CLEANING METHODS; CLEANING PARAMETERS; DYNAMIC FILTRATION; DYNAMIC MEMBRANES; FILTER SAMPLE; FILTRATION PERFORMANCE; FLUX RECOVERY; HIGH POTENTIAL; INCUBATION TIME; LARGE PORE SIZE; LIQUID SOLUTION; MBR; REFERENCE METHOD;

EXPERIMENTS; LIQUIDS; MICROFILTRATION; PILOT PLANTS;

CHEMICAL CLEANING;

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); FILTER; FILTRATION; FOAM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INCUBATION TIME; PARTICLE SIZE; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84873849697     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: 18733123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2012.12.047     Document Type: Article

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