Gravity-driven membrane filtration as pretreatment for seawater reverse osmosis: Linking biofouling layer morphology with flux stabilization

Water Research

Volumn 70, Issue , 2015, Pages 158-173

  Akhondi, Ebrahim ^a   Wu, Bing ^a   Sun, Shuyang ^b,c   Marxer, Brigit ^d   Lim, Weikang ^a   Gu, Jun ^b   Liu, Linbo ^b   Burkhardt, Michael ^d   McDougald, Diane ^b,c   Pronk, Wouter ^e   Fane, Anthony G ^a,f  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d Landscape Architecture   (Switzerland)

^e SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^f NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Biofouling layer porosity; Confocal laser scanning microscopy; Fouling resistance; Microbial community structure; Optical coherence tomography; Predation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; HYDRAULICS; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; MICROFILTRATION; MORPHOLOGY; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; ORGANIC CARBON; POROSITY; POROUS MATERIALS; REVERSE OSMOSIS; RNA; SEAWATER; TOMOGRAPHY;

CONFOCAL LASER SCANNING MICROSCOPY; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; FOULING RESISTANCE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; PREDATION; PRESSURE AND TEMPERATURE; REMOVAL EFFICIENCIES; SEAWATER REVERSE OSMOSIS;

BIOFOULING;

CARBON DIOXIDE; ORGANIC CARBON; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; SEA WATER;

BIOFOULING; GENE; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; ORGANIC CARBON; OSMOSIS; POROSITY; SEAWATER; ULTRAFILTRATION;

ARTICLE; BIOFOULING; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; GRAVITY DRIVEN MEMBRANE; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; MEMBRANE; MEMBRANE FILTER; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SAMPLE SIZE; THICKNESS; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; FILTRATION; GRAVITY; MICROBIOLOGY; OSMOSIS; PROCEDURES;

ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA;

FILTRATION; GRAVITATION; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; OSMOSIS; SEAWATER; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84918800359     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2014.12.001     Document Type: Article

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