Membrane fouling severely curtails the economical and practical implementation of ultrafiltration for the purification of biologically related process streams such as abattoir effluent. Mechanical and chemical removal of ...

Proteins and lipids are the major membrane foulants present in abattoir process effluent. The successful use of ultrafiltration (UF) to treat such effluent streams depends on the effective removal of these foulants, which ...

The prevention of fouling of polysulphone ultrafiltration membranes, used for the purification of natural brown water, was investigated by pretreating the feed-water prior to filtration. Natural brown water was pretreated ...

Effluent arriving from the Mondi Kraft paper mill at Piet Retief, South Africa, was filtered through tubular poly(ether sulphone) (PES) ultrafiltration membranes under constant pressure cross-flow conditions. The effluent ...