Important fractions of organic matter causing fouling of seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) membranes

Desalination

Volumn 390, Issue , 2016, Pages 72-80

  Miyoshi, Taro ^a   Hayashi, Masuhiro ^b   Shimamura, Kazuaki ^b   Matsuyama, Hideto ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Swing Corporation   (Japan)

Author keywords

Membrane fouling; Pretreatment; Seawater desalination; Transparent exopolymer particles (TEP)

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOPOLYMERS; CARBON; DESALINATION; FOULING; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MEMBRANE FOULING; MEMBRANES; ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; OSMOSIS MEMBRANES; PARTICLE SIZE; QUALITY CONTROL; SEAWATER; SEAWATER EFFECTS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY;

DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; FLUORESCENCE EXCITATION EMISSION MATRIX; ORGANIC CARBON DETECTION; PRE-TREATMENT; SEAWATER DESALINATION; SEAWATER DESALINATION PLANTS; SEAWATER REVERSE OSMOSIS; TRANSPARENT EXOPOLYMER PARTICLES;

REVERSE OSMOSIS;

DESALINATION; FOULING; MEMBRANE; ORGANIC MATTER; POLYMER; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SEAWATER;

EID: 84964588080     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2016.03.020     Document Type: Article

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