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Membrane Water Treatment Volume 9, Number 5, September 2018 , pages 343-351 DOI: https://doi.org/10.12989/mwt.2018.9.5.343 |
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Membrane fouling in thermophilic membrane bioreactor with different sludge retention times |
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Elif İnce, Mahir İnce and Alikemal Topaloğlu
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| Abstract | ||
| As membrane fouling is based on various factors, it is a complex phenomenon that is hard to estimate. This study investigated membrane fouling in a thermophilic jet loop membrane bioreactor (JLMBR). With this purpose, four different empirical membrane fouling models with different sludge retention times were applied on the flow data obtained in the system. As a result of the model implementation, it was found for all sludge retention times that, standard blocking is effective in the first 1.5 hours of filtration, while cake filtration was dominant in the remaining duration. Additionally, it was observed that as the sludge retention time increases, membrane fouling rate decreases. | ||
| Key Words | ||
| EPS; fouling model; filtration; MBR; SMP; thermophilic | ||
| Address | ||
| Elif İnce, Mahir İnce: Gebze Technical University, Department of Environmental Engineering, Kocaeli, Turkey Alikemal Topaloğlu: Bulent Ecevit University, Department of Environmental Engineering, Zonguldak, Turkey | ||
