Combined BAC and MIEX pre-treatment of secondary wastewater effluent to reduce fouling of nanofiltration membranes

Water Research

Volumn 70, Issue , 2015, Pages 214-223

  Aryal, Ashok ^a   Sathasivan, Arumugam ^b   Heitz, Anna ^a   Zheng, Gang ^b   Nikraz, Hamid ^a   Ginige, Maneesha P ^c  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biologically activated carbon; Membrane fouling; MIEX; Wastewater treatment

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; ACTIVATED CARBON TREATMENT; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; EFFLUENTS; ION EXCHANGE; ION EXCHANGE RESINS; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MEMBRANE FOULING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION; NANOFILTRATION; NANOFILTRATION MEMBRANES; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; ORGANIC CARBON;

AVERAGE FLUX; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVATED CARBON; BIOLOGICALLY ACTIVATED CARBONS; CARBON IONS; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTERS; MAGNETIC ION EXCHANGE RESINS; PRE-TREATMENTS; STOKES RADIUS; WASTEWATER EFFLUENTS;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ACTIVATED CARBON; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; ION EXCHANGE RESIN; MAGNETIC ION EXCHANGE RESIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANT;

ACTIVATED CARBON; BIOFILTRATION; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; EFFLUENT; FOULING; MAGNETIC METHOD; MEMBRANE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; RESIN; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

ARTICLE; EFFLUENT; FOULING CONTROL; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MEASUREMENT; MEMBRANE FILTER; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MOLECULAR SIZE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NANOFILTRATION; NONHUMAN; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; DEVICES; FILTRATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MAGNETISM; NANOTECHNOLOGY; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANT;

FILTRATION; ION EXCHANGE RESINS; MAGNETICS; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84919741405     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2014.12.003     Document Type: Article

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