Development of a new technique to predict reverse osmosis fouling

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 448, Issue , 2013, Pages 12-22

  Taheri, A H ^a,b   Sim, S T V ^a,b   Sim, L N ^a,b   Chong, T H ^a   Krantz, W B ^a,b,c   Fane, A G ^a,b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

Author keywords

Colloidal fouling; Feed Fouling Monitor (FFM); Fouling prediction; RO; UF; Ultrasonic time domain reflectometry (UTDR)

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDAL FOULING; FOULING PREDICTION; RO; UF; ULTRASONIC TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY (UTDR);

EXPERIMENTS; FORECASTING; REVERSE OSMOSIS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

FOULING;

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; BIOFOULING; CELL MEMBRANE; HYDRODYNAMICS; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; POLARIZATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLECTOMETRY; REVERSE OSMOSIS; THICKNESS; ULTRAFILTRATION; ULTRASOUND; VELOCITY;

EID: 84882970713     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: 18733123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2013.06.040     Document Type: Article

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