Spiral membrane

This paper investigates a methodology for the characterisation and location of a thin layer of irreversible fouling in a spiral-wound ultrafiltration membrane by using several physico-chemical techniques as SEM-EDX, SEMFEG, FTIR-ATR and AFM. Application to analysis of a spiral-wound PES membrane for

The objective of this paper is to characterise and locate the thin layer of irreversible fouling in a spiral-wound membrane of ultrafiltration of acid whey, after 8000 h of production in a French dairy. Several physico-chemical techniques as SEM-EDX, SEM-FEG, FTIR-ATR and AFM were used. Fouling was