In situ 3D characterization of monodispersed spherical particle deposition on microsieve using confocal laser scanning microscopy

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 454, Issue , 2014, Pages 283-297

  Ben Hassan, Ines ^a,b,c,d   Lafforgue, Christine ^a,b,c   Ayadi, Abdelmoneim ^d   Schmitz, Philippe ^a,b,c  

^a INSA   (France)

^b UMR792 INGÉNIERIE DES SYSTÈMES BIOLOGIQUES ET DES PROCÉDÉS   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SFAX   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Cake; CLSM; Filtration; Microsieve; Spherical particles

Indexed keywords

CAKE; CLSM; CONFOCAL LASER SCANNING MICROSCOPY; FILTRATION EXPERIMENTS; MICROSCOPIC OBSERVATIONS; MICROSIEVE; PERMEABILITY REDUCTION; SPHERICAL PARTICLE;

CHARACTERIZATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DEPOSITION; FILTRATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; SILICON NITRIDE; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

MICROSPHERE; SILICON NITRIDE;

ARTICLE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MEMBRANE; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MORPHOLOGY; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUSPENSION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 84891644934     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: 18733123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2013.12.003     Document Type: Article

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