Optimisation and performance of NaClO-assisted maintenance cleaning for fouling control in membrane bioreactors

Water Research

Volumn 53, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-11

  Wang, Zhizhen ^a   Meng, Fangang ^a   He, Xiang ^a   Zhou, Zhongbo ^a   Huang, Li Nan ^a   Liang, Shuang ^b  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Activated sludge; Chemical cleaning; Membrane bioreactor; Membrane fouling; Wastewater treatment

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS; BIOCONVERSION; BIOLOGICAL WATER TREATMENT; BIOPOLYMERS; BIOREACTORS; CHEMICAL CLEANING; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MEMBRANE FOULING; MEMBRANES; RNA; SODIUM COMPOUNDS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

16S RRNA SEQUENCING; ACTIVATED SLUDGE; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROMETRY; MAINTENANCE CLEANING; MEMBRANE BIOREACTOR; PURE WATER PERMEABILITIES; TRANSMEMBRANE PRESSURES;

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS;

BIOPOLYMER; HYPOCHLORITE SODIUM; RNA 16S; WATER;

BACTERIUM; BIOREACTOR; DENITRIFICATION; FOULING; FTIR SPECTROSCOPY; MEMBRANE; OPTIMIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PERMEABILITY; POLYMER; SLUDGE; WASTEWATER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CLEANING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENITRIFICATION; FOULING CONTROL; INFRARED SPECTROMETRY; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MEMBRANE REACTOR; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SLUDGE; THIOTHRIX; WATER PERMEABILITY;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; CHEMICAL CLEANING; MEMBRANE BIOREACTOR; MEMBRANE FOULING; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

BACTERIA; BIOFOULING; BIOREACTORS; GENES, BACTERIAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SODIUM HYPOCHLORITE; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID;

EID: 84893174646     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2013.12.040     Document Type: Article

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