“…The cross-flow filtration operation has been widely applied for efficient micro-and ultrafiltration. In recent years, much work on both microfiltration and ultrafiltration has been done in order to quantify the influence of the process parameters on membrane fouling and filtrate flux (Baker et al, 1985;Rautenbach, 1988;Ramero and Davis, 1988;Jordhan and Ladva, 1989;Mackley and Sherman, 1992;Bashir and Reuss, 1992;Dharmappa et al, 1992;Blake et al, 1992;Akay and Wakeman, 1993;Lu et al, 1993;Redkar and Davis, 1993;Stamatakis and Tien, 1993;Tarleton and Wakeman, 1994;Wakeman, 1994). Some researchers have addressed the filtration of particulate, mineral-based or -related suspensions; others, the filtration of biological or related suspensions.…”