Characteristics of membrane fouling by consecutive chemical cleaning in pressurized ultrafiltration as pre-treatment of seawater desalination

Desalination

Volumn 369, Issue , 2015, Pages 51-61

  Woo, Yun Chul ^a,b   Lee, Jeong Jun ^a   Tijing, Leonard D ^b   Shon, Ho Kyong ^b   Yao, Minwei ^b   Kim, Han Seung ^a  

^a Myong Ji University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chemical cleaning; Desalination; Membrane fouling; Pre treatment; Ultrafiltration

Indexed keywords

AIR CLEANERS; CLEANING; DESALINATION; HYDROMETALLURGY; HYDROPHILICITY; MEMBRANE FOULING; MEMBRANES; ORGANIC ACIDS; OXALIC ACID; RECOVERY; SEAWATER; SODIUM; ULTRAFILTRATION;

CLEANING EFFICIENCY; DESALINATION PLANT; MEMBRANE PERFORMANCE; PHYSICAL CLEANINGS; PRE-TREATMENT; RECOVERY EFFICIENCY; SEAWATER DESALINATION; SODIUM HYPOCHLORITES;

CHEMICAL CLEANING;

DESALINATION; FOULING; MEMBRANE; OXALIC ACID; SEAWATER; SODIUM; ULTRAFILTRATION;

EID: 84928814924     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2015.04.030     Document Type: Article

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