Fouling reduction in MBR-RO processes : the effect of MBR F/M ratio

• Main Authors: Kitade, Tamotsu, Wu, Bing, Chong, Tzyy Haur, Fane, Anthony Gordon, Uemura, Tadahiro
• Other Authors: School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/100499; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/10964
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This work investigated fouling propensities of microfiltration membranes and reverse osmosis (RO) membranes and analyzed the characteristics of deposited foulants on the membranes in two parallel Membrane bioreactor (MBR)-RO systems, with MBRs operated at different food to micro-organism (F/M) ratio...