Role of pressure in organic fouling in forward osmosis and reverse osmosis

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 493, Issue , 2015, Pages 748-754

  Xie, Ming ^a,b   Lee, Jongho ^a   Nghiem, Long D ^b   Elimelech, Menachem ^a  

^a Yale University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Forward osmosis; Fouling layer compaction; Fouling layer structure; Fouling reversibility; Reverse osmosis

Indexed keywords

COMPACTION; DESALINATION; DRAG; MEMBRANE FOULING; OSMOSIS; REVERSE OSMOSIS; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION;

CONFOCAL LASER SCANNING MICROSCOPY; EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES; FORWARD OSMOSIS; FOULING LAYER STRUCTURE; FOULING LAYERS; FOULING REVERSIBILITIES; HYDRAULIC PRESSURE; POSSIBLE MECHANISMS;

FOULING;

ALGINIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BIOFOULING; CLEANING; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; FORWARD OSMOSIS; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MODEL; OSMOSIS; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE OSMOSIS; THICKNESS; WATER PERMEABILITY; WATER TRANSPORT;

EID: 84938125190     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: 18733123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2015.07.033     Document Type: Article

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