Novel approach to characterizing the growth of a fouling layer during membrane filtration via optical coherence tomography

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 24, 2014, Pages 14273-14281

  Gao, Yiben ^a,b   Haavisto, Sanna ^c   Li, Weiyi ^a   Tang, Chuyang Y ^d   Salmela, Juha ^c   Fane, Anthony G ^a,b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE FOULING; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY; WATER FILTRATION; WATER TREATMENT;

CHARACTERIZATION METHODS; CHARACTERIZATION TECHNIQUES; HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGE; INTERFERENCE SIGNAL; INTERNAL STRUCTURE; MEMBRANE FILTRATION SYSTEM; MEMBRANE FILTRATIONS; STRUCTURAL IMAGING;

MICROFILTRATION;

ANTIFOULING; DOPPLER EFFECT; FILTRATION; FOULING; HYDRODYNAMICS; MEMBRANE; TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCITY PROFILE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOULING CONTROL; HYDRODYNAMICS; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; IMPEDANCE; MEMBRANE FILTER; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SHEAR RATE; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; BIOFOULING; BIOREACTOR; FILTRATION; PROCEDURES; SEWAGE; WASTE WATER; WATER MANAGEMENT;

ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; WASTE WATER;

BIOFOULING; BIOREACTORS; FILTRATION; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WASTE WATER; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 84918536716     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es503326y     Document Type: Article

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