Abstract
A submerged anaerobic MBR demonstration plant with two commercial hollow-fibre ultrafiltration systems (PURON®, Koch Membrane Systems, PUR-PSH31) was operated using municipal wastewater at high levels of mixed liquor total solids (MLTS) (above 22gL−1). A modified flux-step method was applied to assess the critical flux (JC) at different gas sparging intensities. The results showed a linear dependency between JC and the specific gas demand per unit of membrane area (SGDm). JC ranged from 12 to 19LMH at SGDm values of between 0.17 and 0.5Nm3h−1m−2, which are quite low in comparison to aerobic MBR. Long-term trials showed that the membranes operated steadily at fluxes close to the estimated JC, which validates the JC obtained by this method. After operating the membrane for almost 2years at sub-critical levels, no irreversible fouling problems were detected, and therefore, no chemical cleaning was conducted.
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