Long-term effect on membrane fouling in a new membrane bioreactor as a pretreatment to seawater desalination

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 165, Issue C, 2014, Pages 60-68

  Jeong, Sanghyun ^a   Rice, Scott A ^b,c   Vigneswaran, Saravanamuthu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Adsorption; Biofouling; Membrane bio reactor; Microfiltration; Seawater

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; ADSORPTION; BIOFOULING; BIOREACTORS; CARBON; DESALINATION; MEMBRANE FOULING; MEMBRANES; MICROFILTRATION; ORGANIC CARBON; SEAWATER; SEAWATER EFFECTS;

ASSIMILABLE ORGANIC CARBON; BIOLOGICAL PRE-TREATMENT; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MEMBRANE BIOREACTOR; POWDER ACTIVATED CARBON; SEAWATER DESALINATION; SEAWATER REVERSE OSMOSIS; SUBMERGED MEMBRANE;

REVERSE OSMOSIS;

CELL DNA; ORGANIC CARBON; POLYSACCHARIDE; SEA WATER; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; BIOPOLYMER; CARBON; DNA; HUMIC SUBSTANCE; ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ACTIVATED CARBON; ADSORPTION; BIOFILM; BIOFOULING; BIOREACTOR; DESALINATION; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MEMBRANE; SEAWATER;

ARTICLE; BIOFILM; BIOFILTRATION; BIOFOULING; DESALINATION; MEMBRANE REACTOR; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SUBMERGED MEMBRANE ADSORPTION BIOREACTOR; ADSORPTION; ANALYSIS; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; BIOREACTOR; CHEMISTRY; FILTRATION; HUMIC SUBSTANCE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PRESSURE; PROCEDURES; SALINITY; TIME; WATER MANAGEMENT;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ADSORPTION; BIOFILMS; BIOFOULING; BIOPOLYMERS; BIOREACTORS; CARBON; DNA; FILTRATION; HUMIC SUBSTANCES; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PRESSURE; SALINITY; SEAWATER; TIME FACTORS; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 84922533756     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: 18732976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2014.03.098     Document Type: Article

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