Practical performance analysis of an industrial-scale ultrafiltration membrane water treatment plant
Document Type
Article (Restricted)
Publication Date
1-1-2015
Abstract
Common design and operational issues to evaluate the performance of an ultrafiltration (UF) membrane water treatment plant are highlighted with a case study on an industrial-scale drinking water treatment plant located in Malaysia. This treatment plant has been in operation since February 2013 using dead-end polyethersulfone UF membrane filtration system to produce up to 14 million litres a day of drinking water to a small township. Literature solutions are compared with the practised solutions and elucidated with the case study. Gaps between literature solutions which are mainly based on lab-scale research and industry practices are identified. Reducing this gap will have vast implication to improve the design and operation of industrial-scale UF treatment system. (C) 2014 Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Keywords
Ultrafiltration, Water treatment, Design, Operation, Wound uf membrane, Treatment facility, Permeate flow, Humic-acid, Filtration, Backwash, ro, Foulants, Removal, Design
Divisions
fac_eng
Funders
University of Malaya Postgraduate Research Grant, PPP PG041-2013B
Publication Title
Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers
Volume
46
Publisher
Elsevier
Additional Information
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