A new insight into membrane fouling mechanism in submerged membrane bioreactor: Osmotic pressure during cake layer filtration

Water Research

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2777-2786

  Zhang, Meijia ^a   Peng, Wei ^a   Chen, Jianrong ^a   He, Yiming ^a   Ding, Linxian ^a   Wang, Aijun ^a   Lin, Hongjun ^a   Hong, Huachang ^a   Zhang, Ye ^a   Yu, Haiying ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Extracellular polymeric substances; Membrane bioreactor; Membrane fouling; Osmotic pressure

Indexed keywords

IONIC STRENGTH; MEMBRANE FOULING; MEMBRANES; MICROFILTRATION; OSMOSIS;

APPLIED PRESSURE; CAKE LAYER; EXTRACELLULAR; EXTRACELLULAR POLYMERIC SUBSTANCE; FILTRATION RESISTANCE; MEMBRANE BIOREACTOR; MEMBRANE FOULING MECHANISMS; MEMBRANE SURFACE; POLYMERIC SUBSTANCE; SUBMERGED MEMBRANE BIOREACTORS;

BIOREACTORS;

ELECTROLYTE;

BIOFOULING; BIOREACTOR; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FILTRATION; MEMBRANE; OSMOSIS; PH; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; BIOFOULING; FILTER CAKE; FILTRATION; IONIC STRENGTH; MEMBRANE MODEL; MEMBRANE REACTOR; MEMBRANE RESISTANCE; OSMOSIS; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PARTICLE SIZE; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SUBMERGED MEMBRANE BIOREACTOR; SUSPENSION; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 84876131826     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2013.02.041     Document Type: Article

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