Biofouling of reverse-osmosis membranes during tertiary wastewater desalination: Microbial community composition

Water Research

Volumn 50, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Al Ashhab, Ashraf ^a   Herzberg, Moshe ^a   Gillor, Osnat ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Archaea; Bacteria; Biofouling; Fungi; Municipal wastewater; Reverse osmosis membrane

Indexed keywords

BIOFILMS; BIOFOULING; CELL ADHESION; DESALINATION; FUNGI; GENE ENCODING; OSMOSIS MEMBRANES; REVERSE OSMOSIS; RNA; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ARCHAEAL; ARCHAEON; FEEDWATER; FUNGAL COMMUNITY; MATRIX; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; MUNICIPAL WASTEWATERS; REVERSE OSMOSIS DESALINATION; REVERSE OSMOSIS MEMBRANE; TREATED WASTEWATER;

BACTERIA;

RNA 16S; RNA 18S;

ADHESION; BACTERIUM; BIOFOULING; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DESALINATION; FUNGUS; MEMBRANE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; OSMOSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WASTEWATER;

ACIDOBACTERIA; ACTINOBACTERIA; AGARICOMYCOTINA; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; BACTEROIDETES; BASIDIOMYCETES; BIOFILM; BIOFOULING; BURKHOLDERIALES; CAPNODIACEAE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CRENARCHAEOTA; DESALINATION; DOTHIDEOMYCETE; FUNGAL COMMUNITY; FUNGUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GLOMEROMYCOTA; METHANOMICROBIACEAE; METHANOPYRALES; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; PEZIZOMYCOTINA; PHYLUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONADALES; REVERSE OSMOSIS; REVERSE OSMOSIS MEMBRANE; RHIZOBIALES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPHINGOBACTERIA; SPHINGOMONADALES; TERTIARY WASTEWATER DESALINATION; THERMOPLASMATALES; THERMOPROTEACEAE; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; XANTHOMONADALES;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ARCHAEA; ASCOMYCOTA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CRENARCHAEOTA; EURYARCHAEOTA; FUNGI; PROTEOBACTERIA;

ANALYSIS OF SIMILARITY; ANOSIM; ARCHAEA; ARCHAEA TAG-ENCODED FLX AMPLICON PYROSEQUENCING; ATEFAP; BACTERIA; BACTERIA TAG-ENCODED FLX AMPLICON PYROSEQUENCING; BIOFOULING; BTEFAP; FTEFAP; FUNGI; FUNGI TAG-ENCODED FLX AMPLICON PYROSEQUENCING; HG-MBR; HYBRID GROWTH MEMBRANE BIOREACTOR; H′; ICP-OES; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA-OPTICAL EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER; OPERATIONAL TAXONOMIC UNIT; OTU; PCA; PCR; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REVERSE OSMOSIS; REVERSE OSMOSIS MEMBRANE; RICHNESS ESTIMATOR, CHAO1 INDEX; RO; S; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; SEM; SHANNON-WEAVER INDEX; TERTIARY TREATED WASTEWATER; TNA; TOTAL NUCLEIC ACID; TTWW; UF; ULTRAFILTRATION;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIODIVERSITY; BIOFILMS; BIOFOULING; BIOREACTORS; FUNGI; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; OSMOSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WASTE WATER; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 84892489748     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2013.10.044     Document Type: Article

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