A comparative study of microfiltration and ultrafiltration for algae harvesting

Algal Research

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 437-444

  Sun, Xuefei ^a   Wang, Cunwen ^a   Tong, Yanjie ^a   Wang, Weiguo ^a   Wei, Jiang ^b  

^a WUHAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b ALFA LAVAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Algae; Fouling; Harvesting; Microfiltration; Ultrafiltration

Indexed keywords

ALGAE;

EID: 84888308648     PISSN: 22119264     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.algal.2013.08.004     Document Type: Article

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