Impact of organic and colloidal fouling on trace organic contaminant rejection by forward osmosis: Role of initial permeate flux

Desalination

Volumn 336, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 146-152

  Xie, Ming ^a   Nghiem, Long D ^a   Price, William E ^a   Elimelech, Menachem ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

Colloidal particles; Forward osmosis; Fouling layer structure; Humic acid; Trace organic contaminants (TrOCs)

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDAL PARTICLE; FORWARD OSMOSIS; FOULING LAYER STRUCTURE; HUMIC ACID; TRACE ORGANIC CONTAMINANTS;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; COLLOIDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MEMBRANE FOULING; ORGANIC ACIDS; SOLIDS;

OSMOSIS;

COLLOID; FOULING; HUMIC ACID; MEMBRANE; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; OSMOSIS;

EID: 84893042644     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2013.12.037     Document Type: Article

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