Fouling in membrane bioreactors: An updated review

Water Research - Tập 114 - Trang 151-180 - 2017
Fangang Meng1, Shaoqing Zhang1, Yoontaek Oh2, Zhongbo Zhou1, Hang‐Sik Shin2, So-Ryong Chae3
1School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, PR China
2Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon 305-701, South Korea
3Department of Biomedical, Chemical, and Environmental Engineering, 701 Engineering Research Center, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221, United States

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