Investigation of environmental influences on membrane biofouling in a Southern California desalination pilot plant

Desalination

Volumn 319, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-9

  Huang, Siqian ^a   Voutchkov, Nikolay ^b   Jiang, Sunny C ^a  

^a University of California at Irvine   (United States)

^b Water Globe Consulting LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Biofilm; Biofouling indicator; Chlorophyll; RO membrane; Seawater desalination; Total organic carbon

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL FLUORESCENCE; CHLOROPHYLL FLUORESCENCE MEASUREMENTS; CONFOCAL LASER SCANNING MICROSCOPY; ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCES; MEMBRANE FOULING SIMULATOR; RO MEMBRANE; SEAWATER DESALINATION; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON;

BIOFILMS; CHLOROPHYLL; DESALINATION; MEMBRANE FOULING; MEMBRANES; PILOT PLANTS; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SEAWATER; WATER FILTRATION; WATER QUALITY;

BIOFOULING;

BIOFILM; BIOFOULING; CHLOROPHYLL; DESALINATION; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; MEMBRANE; OSMOSIS; SEAWATER; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; TURBIDITY; WATER QUALITY;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84877024059     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2013.03.016     Document Type: Article

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