Enhanced gypsum scaling by organic fouling layer on nanofiltration membrane: Characteristics and mechanisms

Water Research

Volumn 91, Issue , 2016, Pages 203-213

  Wang, Jiaxuan ^a,b   Wang, Lei ^a   Miao, Rui ^a   Lv, Yongtao ^a   Wang, Xudong ^a   Meng, Xiaorong ^a   Yang, Ruosong ^a   Zhang, Xiaoting ^a  

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

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF SURFACE ENGINEERING IOM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gypsum scaling; Interaction force; Nanofiltration membrane; Organic fouling; Quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation (QCM D)

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BODY FLUIDS; CALCIUM; FILTRATION; FOULING; GYPSUM; MEMBRANES; MICROFILTRATION; NANOFILTRATION; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; QUARTZ CRYSTAL MICROBALANCES;

CHARACTERISTICS AND MECHANISMS; FILTRATION EXPERIMENTS; GYPSUM SCALING; INTERACTION FORCES; ORGANIC FOULING; PHYSICOCHEMICAL EFFECTS; QUARTZ CRYSTAL MICROBALANCE WITH DISSIPATION; SURFACE CRYSTALLIZATION;

NANOFILTRATION MEMBRANES;

ADLAYER; ALGINIC ACID; BOVINE SERUM ALBUMIN; CALCIUM; CALCIUM SULFATE; HUMIC ACID; ORGANIC MATTER; PIPERAZINE DERIVATIVE; POLY(PIPERAZINEAMIDE); POLYMER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; GLUCURONIC ACID; HEXURONIC ACID; HUMIC SUBSTANCE; WATER POLLUTANT;

ADHESION; ADSORPTION; ALGINATE; CRYSTALLIZATION; FILTRATION; GYPSUM; HUMIC ACID; MEMBRANE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; ORGANIC MATTER; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; SERUM;

ADHESION; ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMICAL BINDING; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CRYSTALLIZATION; DESALINATION; FORCE; FOULING CONTROL; GYPSUM SCALING; INVESTIGATIVE PROCEDURES; MACROMOLECULE; NANOFILTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUARTZ CRYSTAL MICROBALANCE; SURFACE CHARGE; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; ANALYSIS; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; DEVICES; HUMIC SUBSTANCE; PROCEDURES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECTROMETRY; ULTRAFILTRATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTANT;

BOVINAE;

ADSORPTION; ALGINATES; CALCIUM SULFATE; GLUCURONIC ACID; HEXURONIC ACIDS; HUMIC SUBSTANCES; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; QUARTZ CRYSTAL MICROBALANCE TECHNIQUES; SERUM ALBUMIN, BOVINE; SPECTROMETRY, X-RAY EMISSION; ULTRAFILTRATION; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 84954458347     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2016.01.019     Document Type: Article

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