Impaired Performance of Pressure-Retarded Osmosis due to Irreversible Biofouling

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 21, 2015, Pages 13050-13058

  Bar Zeev, Edo ^a   Perreault, François ^b   Straub, Anthony P ^c   Elimelech, Menachem ^c  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b Arizona State University   (United States)

^c Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOFOULING; DESALINATION; DROPS; OSMOSIS; PRESSURE DROP; SEAWATER; SPACE POWER GENERATION;

ARTIFICIAL SEAWATER; BENCH SCALE EXPERIMENTS; PRESSURE RETARDED OSMOSIS (PRO); PRESSURE-RETARDED OSMOSIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SEAWATER DESALINATION PLANTS; SIMULATED SEAWATERS; WASTEWATER EFFLUENTS;

EFFLUENTS;

SEA WATER; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; BRINE; INORGANIC SALT; WASTE WATER;

BACTERIUM; BIOFOULING; BRINE; DESALINATION; EFFLUENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; INOCULATION; OSMOSIS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PRESSURE DROP; SALINITY; SEAWATER; WASTEWATER;

ARTICLE; BIOFILM; BIOFOULING; DESALINATION; NONHUMAN; OSMOSIS; PRESSURE RETARDED OSMOSIS; PSEUDOALTEROMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PRESSURE; SALINITY; SPECTROMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WASTE WATER; WATER MANAGEMENT;

PSEUDOALTEROMONAS ATLANTICA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

BACTERIA; BIOFILMS; BIOFOULING; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OSMOSIS; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PRESSURE; SALINITY; SALTS; SEAWATER; SPECTROMETRY, X-RAY EMISSION; WASTE WATER; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 84946811339     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b03523     Document Type: Article

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