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The goal of this project is to assess a competitive and innovative way of treatment for dirty surface water integrating advanced clarification and ultrafiltration (UF) membrane technologies. Approximately, 60 % shareof the U.S. membrane market concerns the surface water filtration application. The use of high rateclarification as a pretreatment prior to the UF membranes could cause potential severe or irreversiblefouling of membranes by the process chemicals, metal salts and flocculant aids or by natural organicmatter present in surface water. Therefore this aspect is investigated in this study, which focuses mainlyon the optimization of process operating issues.Specific objectives of this study, therefore, are to:optimize the UF pre-treatment (clarification step) in terms of hydraulics and natural organic matter (NOM) removal;assess the impact of coagulant dosage (residual coagulant) on the UF membrane performance;optimize membrane operation (filtration period, backwash mode and frequency, chemical cleaningprocedure and frequency); and,study the membrane ageing caused by the presence of coagulant impurities (metals) and chemical cleanings. Includes 6 references, tables, figures.

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Edition: Vol. - No. Published: 06/17/2004 Number of Pages: 6File Size: 1 file , 450 KB