Surface shear stress and membrane fouling when considering natural water matrices

Desalination

Volumn 330, Issue , 2013, Pages 22-27

  Wray, Heather E ^a   Andrews, Robert C ^a   Bérubé, Pierre R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Air sparging; Hollow fiber; Liquid chromatography organic carbon detection; Membrane fouling; Shear stress; Ultrafiltration (UF)

Indexed keywords

AIR SPARGING; HOLLOW FIBER; MEMBRANE SURFACE; NATURAL ORGANIC MATTERS; NATURAL-WATER MATRICES; ORGANIC MATERIALS; SUBMERGED HOLLOW FIBERS; SURFACE SHEAR STRESS;

AIR; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MEMBRANE FOULING; SURFACES;

SHEAR STRESS;

BUBBLE; DETECTION METHOD; FOULING; LAKE WATER; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MEMBRANE; ORGANIC CARBON; RIVER WATER; SHEAR STRESS; ULTRAFILTRATION;

EID: 84885459923     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2013.09.018     Document Type: Article

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