An Integrated Fouling Monitoring Technique for a Water Treatment Microfiltration Process

Abstract

An integrated, online fouling monitoring technique that provides dynamic and real-time information of membrane fouling during a water treatment membrane process was developed. This technique has preliminarily been demonstrated for monitoring particulate fouling in a water treatment microfiltration process using a single photo sensor. The results of the online dynamic analysis suggest that this technique provides in situ measurement of fouling layer thickness, dynamic analysis of the fouling layer structure, and monitoring of water quality during the membrane filtration process

Biofouling of Water Treatment Membranes: A Review of the Underlying Causes, Monitoring Techniques and Control Measures

“…However, the MFS unit only monitors the development of the pressure drop in the feed channel under conditions without permeate production therefore it does not monitor flux reduction caused by biofouling. Further integration of the MFS unit with real-time numerical analysis or precision monitoring devices is required to obtain information about fouling layer structure or chemical composition of the foulants in real time [ 99 ].…”