Open AccessInvestigations of the mechanism of the fouling in microgranular adsorptive filtration
Author(s) -
Beata Malczewska
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of water and land development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.377
H-Index - 16
eISSN - 2083-4535
pISSN - 1429-7426
DOI - 10.1515/jwld-2017-0077
Subject(s) - filtration (mathematics) , fouling , membrane fouling , mechanism (biology) , chemistry , natural organic matter , membrane , organic matter , chromatography , mathematics , epistemology , philosophy , organic chemistry , biochemistry , statistics
The application of microgranular adsorptive filtration (μGAF) has been successfully used in conjunction with membrane filtration. It proves to be efficient not only in removal of natural organic matter (NOM) but also it significantly reduces the extent of fouling. There are a few mathematical models evaluated to understand the underlying mechanism of fouling. This paper describes a method of predicting filtration capacities using constant flow datasets collected when μGAF was applied. The results suggest that the behaviour of fouling in microgranular adsorptive filtration system varies between different filtration operations and natural water quality. In analysed case the mechanism of pores blocking can be described by the complete blocking mechanism
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