Evaluation of methods for reverse osmosis membrane integrity monitoring for wastewater reuse

Journal of Water Process Engineering

Volumn 7, Issue , 2015, Pages 161-168

  Huang, Xiao ^a   Min, Joon H ^b   Lu, Wenzhou ^a,c   Jaktar, Kris ^b   Yu, Christopher ^d   Jiang, Sunny C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BKT United   (United States)

^c NINGBO UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Montrose Environmental Group   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic light scattering; Flow cytometry; Membrane integrity; Reverse osmosis; TOC

Indexed keywords

EID: 84934966511     PISSN: 22147144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jwpe.2015.05.001     Document Type: Article

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