Effect of chemical cleaning conditions on the flux recovery of MF membrane as pretreatment of seawater desalination

Desalination and Water Treatment

Volumn 51, Issue 31-33, 2013, Pages 6329-6337

  Woo, Yun Chul ^a   Lee, Jeong Jun ^a   Oh, Jin Seok ^a   Kim, Han Seung ^a  

^a Myong Ji University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Chemical cleaning; Desalination; Hollow fiber membrane; Microfiltration; Pretreatment; Recovery rate; Seawater

Indexed keywords

BIOFOULING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DESALINATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MEMBRANE; ORGANIC ACID; SEAWATER; TENSILE STRENGTH; WATER TREATMENT;

EID: 84886417476     PISSN: 19443994     EISSN: 19443986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19443994.2013.780993     Document Type: Article

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