Quantitative determination of the electrical properties of RO membranes during fouling and cleaning processes using electrical impedance spectroscopy

Desalination

Volumn 379, Issue , 2016, Pages 126-136

  Sim, Lee Nuang ^a,b   Gu, Jun ^a,b   Coster, Hans G L ^c   Fane, Anthony G ^a,b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Capacitance; Conductance; Electrical impedance spectroscopy; Real time monitoring; RO fouling

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; CLEANING; ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; FOULING; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SILICA; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SPECTROSCOPY;

CONCENTRATION POLARIZATION; ELECTRICAL ELEMENTS; ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OPTICAL MEASUREMENT; PARALLEL CONDUCTANCE; QUANTITATIVE DETERMINATIONS; REAL TIME MONITORING; SKIN LAYER THICKNESS;

MEMBRANES;

BIOFOULING; ELECTRICAL PROPERTY; MEMBRANE; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WATER QUALITY; WATER TREATMENT;

EID: 84947227756     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2015.11.006     Document Type: Article

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