Interaction of humic substances on fouling in membrane distillation for seawater desalination

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 262, Issue , 2015, Pages 946-957

  Naidu, Gayathri ^a   Jeong, Sanghyun ^a   Vigneswaran, Saravanamuthu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biofouling potential; Desalination; Direct contact membrane distillation; Humic substances; Organic fouling; Seawater

Indexed keywords

BIOFOULING; CARBON; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL CLEANING; CHROMATOGRAPHY; DESALINATION; DISTILLATION; FOULING; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MEMBRANES; SEAWATER;

ASSIMILABLE ORGANIC CARBON; CROSS-SECTION ANALYSIS; DIRECT CONTACT MEMBRANE DISTILLATION; HUMIC SUBSTANCES; MEMBRANE DISTILLATION; ORGANIC CARBON DETECTION; ORGANIC FOULING; SEAWATER DESALINATION;

ORGANIC CARBON;

EID: 84949117781     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2014.10.060     Document Type: Article

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