Performance of adsorption pretreatment in mitigating humic acid fouling of ultrafiltration membrane under environmentally relevant ionic conditions

Desalination

Volumn 377, Issue , 2016, Pages 91-98

  Li, Kai ^a   Huang, Tinglin ^a   Qu, Fangshu ^b   Du, Xing ^b   Ding, An ^b   Li, Guibai ^b   Liang, Heng ^b  

^a XI'AN UNIVERSITY OF ARCHITECTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Adsorption pretreatment; Ionic composition; Ionic strength; Membrane fouling; Ultrafiltration

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; ADSORBENTS; ADSORPTION; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CALCIUM; CARBON; EFFICIENCY; FOULING; MEMBRANE FOULING; MEMBRANES; ORGANIC ACIDS; SHEAR STRESS; ULTRAFILTRATION;

CALCIUM CONCENTRATION; IONIC COMPOSITION; MESOPOROUS ADSORBENTS; POWDERED ACTIVATED CARBON; PRE-TREATMENT; REMOVAL EFFICIENCIES; SURFACE SHEAR STRESS; ULTRAFILTRATION MEMBRANES;

IONIC STRENGTH;

ADSORPTION; FOULING; HUMIC ACID; IONIC COMPOSITION; MEMBRANE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; ULTRAFILTRATION;

EID: 84941985244     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2015.09.016     Document Type: Article

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