High retention membrane bioreactors: Challenges and opportunities

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 167, Issue , 2014, Pages 539-546

  Luo, Wenhai ^a   Hai, Faisal I ^a   Price, William E ^a   Guo, Wenshan ^b   Ngo, Hao H ^b   Yamamoto, Kazuo ^c   Nghiem, Long D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Forward osmosis (FO); High retention membrane bioreactor; Membrane distillation (MD); Nanofiltration (NF); Trace organic chemicals (TrOCs)

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADATION; NANOFILTRATION; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; OSMOSIS; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

BIOLOGICAL TREATMENT; FORWARD OSMOSIS; INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY; MEMBRANE BIOREACTOR; MEMBRANE DISTILLATION; MEMBRANE SEPARATION PROCESS; TECHNOLOGICAL CHALLENGES; TRACE ORGANIC CHEMICALS;

BIOREACTORS;

BIOGAS; ORGANIC MATTER; WATER; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE;

BIOREACTOR; COMMERCIALIZATION; DISTILLATION; INNOVATION; MEMBRANE; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; OSMOSIS; SEWAGE TREATMENT; ULTRAFILTRATION;

DISTILLATION; HIGH RETENTION MEMBRANE BIOREACTOR; MEMBRANE DISTILLATION; MEMBRANE REACTOR; NANOFILTRATION; NUTRIENT; OSMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SALINITY; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; BIOREACTOR; FILTRATION; WATER MANAGEMENT;

BIOREACTORS; FILTRATION; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; SALINITY; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 84904581870     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: 18732976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2014.06.016     Document Type: Review

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