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A study of operational factors for reducing the Fouling of hollow fiber membranes during wastewater filtration

H., Norafifah and Noordin, M. Y. and Wong, K. Y. and Izman, S. and Ahmad, A. N. A. (2015) A study of operational factors for reducing the Fouling of hollow fiber membranes during wastewater filtration. In: 12th Global Conference on Sustainable Manufacturing, GCSM 2014, 22 - 24 September 2014, Johor Bahru, Malaysia.

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2014.07.082

Abstract

Fouling of membranes is the most important problem in wastewater filtration since the sustainability of the process is highly influenced by the fouling rate. Possible ways for fouling control are through feed water pre-treatment, operational conditions and membrane cleaning. This paper studies the operational conditions that affect the fouling of hollow fiber ultrafiltration membranes during the separation of wastewater. Specifically, several factors which are temperature, pressure, time, pH and surface area of membrane, are studied. The Design of Experiments methodology is used to investigate the effect the factors. The results of this study help to reduce the fouling of membranes, thus contributing to a more sustainable filtration system.

Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Uncontrolled Keywords:Design of experiment methodology, Hollow fiber membrane, Ultrafiltration
Subjects:T Technology > TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
Divisions:Mechanical Engineering
ID Code:59122
Deposited By: Haliza Zainal
Deposited On:18 Jan 2017 01:50
Last Modified:05 Apr 2022 02:55

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