Effect of biological activated carbon pre-treatment to control organic fouling in the microfiltration of biologically treated secondary effluent

Water Research

Volumn 63, Issue , 2014, Pages 147-157

  Pramanik, Biplob Kumar ^a   Roddick, Felicity A ^a   Fan, Linhua ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biological activated carbon; Biologically treated secondary effluent; Microfiltration; Organic fouling; Pre treatment

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; ACTIVATED CARBON TREATMENT; BIODEGRADATION; BIOPOLYMERS; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; EFFLUENTS; FLUORINE COMPOUNDS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MEMBRANE FOULING; MOLECULES; ORGANIC CARBON; SIZE EXCLUSION CHROMATOGRAPHY; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER FILTRATION;

% REDUCTIONS; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVATED CARBON; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVATED CARBON FILTRATION; BIOLOGICALLY TREATED SECONDARY EFFLUENT; EFFECTIVE REMOVALS; FOULANTS; GRANULAR ACTIVATED CARBONS; ORGANIC FOULING; PRE-TREATMENTS; SECONDARY EFFLUENT;

MICROFILTRATION;

ACTIVATED CARBON; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVATED CARBON; BIOPOLYMER; GRANULAR ACTIVATED CARBON; ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC MATTER; POLYVINYLIDENE FLUORIDE; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CHARCOAL; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANT;

ACTIVATED CARBON; ANTIFOULING; BIODEGRADATION; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; FILTRATION; FOULING; GRANULAR MEDIUM; MEMBRANE; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; WASTE FACILITY; WASTE TREATMENT;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; BIOFILM; BIOLOGICALLY TREATED SECONDARY EFFLUENT; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFLUENT; FOULING CONTROL; FRACTIONATION; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MEMBRANE; MICROFILTRATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOLECULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONTENT; REDUCTION; SURFACE PROPERTY; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; WATER QUALITY; ANALYSIS; BIOREMEDIATION; CHEMISTRY; PROCEDURES; SEWAGE; ULTRAFILTRATION; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANT;

ADSORPTION; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CHARCOAL; ULTRAFILTRATION; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84903756183     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2014.06.014     Document Type: Article

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