Assessment of biological activated carbon treatment to control membrane fouling in reverse osmosis of secondary effluent for reuse in irrigation

Desalination

Volumn 364, Issue , 2015, Pages 90-95

  Pramanik, Biplob Kumar ^a   Roddick, Felicity A ^a   Fan, Linhua ^a   Jeong, Sanghyun ^b   Vigneswaran, Saravanamuth ^b  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biofouling; Biological activated carbon; Irrigation; Microfiltration; Organic fouling; Reverse osmosis

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; ACTIVATED CARBON TREATMENT; BIODEGRADATION; BIOFOULING; CARBON; DESALINATION; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; FOULING; IRRIGATION; MEMBRANE FOULING; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFILTRATION; ORGANIC CARBON; OSMOSIS MEMBRANES; REVERSE OSMOSIS;

AGRICULTURAL PURPOSE; ASSIMILABLE ORGANIC CARBON; BACTERIAL REGROWTH POTENTIALS; BIODEGRADABLE DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVATED CARBON; FOULING PROPENSITIES; ORGANIC FOULING; SECONDARY EFFLUENT;

EFFLUENTS;

EID: 84925409550     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2015.01.040     Document Type: Article

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