A review of reverse osmosis membrane fouling and control strategies

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 595, Issue , 2017, Pages 567-583

  Jiang, Shanxue ^a   Li, Yuening ^b   Ladewig, Bradley P ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Antifouling; Membrane fouling; Pretreatment; Reverse osmosis; Surface modification

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL CLEANING; FOULING; MEMBRANE FOULING; MEMBRANES; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SURFACE TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT;

ANTIFOULING; CONTROL STRATEGIES; FOULING MITIGATION; OPERATING PRESSURE; PRE-TREATMENT; REAL TIME MONITORING; RESEARCH INTERESTS; SURFACE SMOOTHNESS;

MEMBRANE TECHNOLOGY;

FOULING; MEMBRANE; REVERSE OSMOSIS; WATER TREATMENT;

BIOFOULING; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CHEMICAL PROCEDURES; COLLOIDAL FOULING; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; FOULING CONTROL; HYDROPHILICITY; INORGANIC SCALING; MEMBRANE CLEANING; MEMBRANE MONITORING; ORGANIC FOULING; REVERSE OSMOSIS; REVIEW; SURFACE MODIFICATION; SURFACE PROPERTY; SURFACE SMOOTHNESS; SYNTHESIS; CLEANING; CONTROL STRATEGY;

EID: 85017121433     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.03.235     Document Type: Review

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