Bioflocculation: Chemical free, pre-treatment technology for the desalination industry

Water Research

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 3093-3102

  Bar Zeev, Edo ^a   Belkin, Natalia ^a   Liberman, Boris ^b   Berman Frank, Ilana ^a   Berman, Tom ^c  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b IDE Kadima   (Israel)

^c The Yigal Allon Kinneret Limnological Laboratory   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bioflocculator; Desalination pretreatment; Rapid sand filtration

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; AIR; BACTERIA; BIOFILMS; CHEMICAL WATER TREATMENT; COAGULATION; EFFICIENCY; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; EFFLUENTS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER FILTRATION;

BIOFLOCCULATION; BIOFLOCCULATOR; CHEMICAL COAGULATIONS; CHLOROPHYLL A; CLEANING CYCLES; DESALINATION PRETREATMENT; PRE-TREATMENTS; RAPID SAND FILTRATION; SEAWATER FEED; TRANSPARENT EXOPOLYMER PARTICLES;

DESALINATION;

CHLOROPHYLL; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; POLYSACCHARIDE; SEA WATER;

AMORPHOUS MEDIUM; BIOFILM; COLONIZATION; DESALINATION; FILTER; FILTRATION; FLOCCULATION; GRANULAR MEDIUM; MEMBRANE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; POROUS MEDIUM; SEAWATER; SURFACE AREA;

ARTICLE; BIOFILM; BIOFILTER; COCCUS (BACTERIUM); CRUSTACEA; DESALINATION; FLOCCULATION; FUNGUS; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TURBIDITY; WATER QUALITY; WORM;

ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COCCOIDEA; CRUSTACEA; CYANOBACTERIA; FUNGI; PROTISTA; SIPUNCULUS NUDUS;

EID: 84876734723     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2013.03.013     Document Type: Article

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