Short-term fouling propensity and flux behavior in an osmotic membrane bioreactor for wastewater treatment

Desalination

Volumn 332, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 91-99

  Qiu, Guanglei ^a   Ting, Yen Peng ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Elevated salinity; Extracellular polymeric substance (EPS); Fouling; Hydrophobic protein; Osmotic membrane bioreactor (OMBR)

Indexed keywords

BIOCONVERSION; BIOLOGICAL WATER TREATMENT; BIOREACTORS; FOULING; HYDROPHOBICITY; MAGNESIUM COMPOUNDS; MEMBRANE FOULING; OSMOSIS; PROTEINS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; POLYMERS;

ELEVATED SALINITY; EXTRACELLULAR POLYMERIC SUBSTANCES; FORWARD OSMOSIS MEMBRANE; FOULING PROPENSITIES; HYDROPHOBIC PROTEIN; MEMBRANE BIOREACTOR; MEMBRANE ORIENTATION; MIXED LIQUOR SUSPENDED SOLIDS;

MEMBRANES;

BIOREACTOR; FOULING; HYDROPHOBICITY; MEMBRANE; OSMOSIS; POLYMER; PROTEIN; SALINITY; SLUDGE; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER; ACTIVATED SLUDGE; EXOPOLYMER; WATER TREATMENT;

EID: 84888094594     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2013.11.010     Document Type: Article

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