Relationship between feed water quality and membrane performance during the filtration of real secondary effluent

Desalination and Water Treatment

Volumn 50, Issue 1-3, 2012, Pages 34-42

  Zhu, Hongtao ^a,b   Zhang, Zhonghua ^b,c  

^a BEIJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CHINA UNIVERSITY OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Membrane fouling; Microfiltration; Organic matter; Particle matter; Secondary effluent

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875783607     PISSN: 19443994     EISSN: 19443986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19443994.2012.708243     Document Type: Article

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