Kinetic study of seawater reverse osmosis membrane fouling

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 10884-10894

  Khan, Muhammad Tariq ^a   De O Manes, Carmem Lara ^a,b   Aubry, Cyril ^a   Gutierrez, Leonardo ^c   Croue, Jean Philippe ^a  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO VALE   (Brazil)

^c University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC PHENOMENA; FOULING KINETICS; FOULING PROCESS; MEMBRANE SAMPLES; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIAL POPULATIONS; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SEAWATER REVERSE OSMOSIS;

INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEMBRANE FOULING;

REVERSE OSMOSIS;

SEA WATER;

BACTERIUM; BIOFOULING; FOULING; MEMBRANE; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; OSMOSIS; REACTION KINETICS; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SEAWATER; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; FOULING CONTROL; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED PHOTOACOUSTIC SPECTROSCOPY; MEMBRANE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PROTEOBACTERIA; REVERSE OSMOSIS;

BACTERIA; BIOFILMS; DNA, BACTERIAL; KINETICS; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; OSMOSIS; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 84885092071     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es402138e     Document Type: Article

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