Role of initially formed cake layers on limiting membrane fouling in membrane bioreactors

• Main Authors: Wu, Bing, Kitade, Tamotsu, Chong, Tzyy Haur, Uemura, Tadahiro, Fane, Anthony Gordon
• Other Authors: School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/99497; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/12721
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In this study, an interesting phenomenon was observed that when the levels of soluble polysaccharides (SP) and soluble transparent exopolymer particles (sTEP) in the MBR unexpectedly and suddenly increased, the cleaned membranes tended to be more easily fouled compared to the membranes with the init...