Workshop on membrane fouling and monitoring: a summary

Autor:	William J.T. Lewis, John Linkhorst
Rok vydání:	2013
Předmět:	Biofouling Engineering Extracellular polymeric substance Fouling business.industry Membrane fouling Confocal laser scanning microscopy Ocean Engineering Nanotechnology Small sample business Pollution Water Science and Technology
Zdroj:	Desalination and Water Treatment. 51:6401-6406
ISSN:	1944-3986 1944-3994
DOI:	10.1080/19443994.2013.796733
Popis:	Gathering for a workshop hosted by Robert Field at Oxford University, some of the world’s leading experts in membrane fouling presented and discussed recent research progress in this area. The delegates paid particular attention to the key issue of biofouling because of its importance in water treatment and its inherent complexity compared to the mechanics of inorganic particulate fouling. It was remarked that the characterisation and understanding of the extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) in biofilms, and the transparent exopolymers (TEP) involved in their development is still a particularly difficult task, which was a subject present during the entire workshop. Furthermore, advances in characterisation of fouling layers and biofilms utilising ultrasonic time-domain reflectometry (UTDR) and confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) were presented, along with a cautionary perspective on interpretation of data from small sample areas. While membrane fouling reduction is traditionally tackled...
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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