On the reversibility of cake buildup and compression in a membrane bioreactor

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 455, Issue , 2014, Pages 152-161

  Jørgensen, Mads Koustrup ^a   Keiding, Kristian ^a,b   Christensen, Morten Lykkegaard ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b Grundfos DK AS   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Compressibility; Critical flux; Modeling; Shear; Sludge

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL AMOUNT; CRITICAL FLUX; FILTRATION TESTS; FILTRATION TIME; IRREVERSIBLE FOULING; MEMBRANE BIOREACTOR; SLUDGE; TRANSMEMBRANE PRESSURES;

BIOREACTORS; COMPRESSIBILITY; EXPERIMENTS; MODELS; RELAXATION TIME; SHEARING;

FOULING;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; BIOFOULING; COMPRESSION; FILTER CAKE; FILTRATION; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MEMBRANE REACTOR; MEMBRANE RESISTANCE; PARTICLE SIZE; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAXATION TIME; ROTATION; SHEAR RATE; SLUDGE; STEADY STATE; TURBIDITY;

EID: 84892847628     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: 18733123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2013.12.052     Document Type: Article

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