Microstructured spacers for submerged membrane filtration systems

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 446, Issue , 2013, Pages 189-200

  Fritzmann, Clemens ^a   Hausmann, Matthias ^a   Wiese, Martin ^a   Wessling, Matthias ^a   Melin, Thomas ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Energy consumption; Fouling control; Hydrodynamics; Spacer; Submerged membrane system

Indexed keywords

AIR SPARGING RATES; CROSSFLOW VELOCITIES; FOULING CONTROL; PROCESS PARAMETERS; SPACER; SUBMERGED MEMBRANE; SUBMERGED MEMBRANE FILTRATION; TRANSMEMBRANE PRESSURES;

DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; ENERGY UTILIZATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; MICROFILTRATION;

AIR;

ARTICLE; CROSSFLOW FILTRATION; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; FOULING CONTROL; GEOMETRY; MEMBRANE FILTER; MEMBRANE MICROPARTICLE; MEMBRANE REACTOR; MEMBRANE SPACER; METHODOLOGY; MICROBUBBLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPARGING; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84880580843     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: 18733123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2013.06.033     Document Type: Article

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