[EN] After long-term electrodialysis, cleaning the membranes is crucial to extend their lifetime. In this work, we evaluate the effects of a three-stage chemical cleaning on electrochemical and structural properties of ...
Corbatón Báguena, María José; Alvarez Blanco, Silvia; Vincent Vela, Maria Cinta; Ortega Navarro, Emma María; Pérez-Herranz, Valentín(Elsevier, 2016)
In this work, the effectiveness of electric fields to clean two ZrO2 TiO2 ultrafiltration (UF) membranes
fouled with three types of whey model solutions was investigated. Membranes tested had different
molecular weight ...
Luján Facundo, María José; Mendoza Roca, José Antonio; Cuartas Uribe, Beatriz Elena; Alvarez Blanco, Silvia(Elsevier, 2016-11)
Membrane cleaning is a key point for the implementation of membrane technologies in the dairy industry
for proteins concentration. In this study, four ultrafiltration (UF) membranes with different molecular
weight cut-offs ...
García Fayos, Beatriz; Arnal Arnal, José Miguel; Sancho Fernández, María Pino(Taylor & Francis, 2013-01)
Access to safe drinkable water is a basic human right and an international development goal. AQUAPOT international project, created by Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Department of the Polytechnic University of Valencia, ...
In this work the effectiveness of two saline solutions (NaCl and Na2SO4) to clean a permanently hydrophilic polyethersulfone (PESH) ultrafiltration (UF) membrane with a molecular weight cut-off (MWCO) of 30 kDa previously ...
Giménez Antón, Adrià Carles(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2013-06-24)
[ES] Este TFM se ha centrado en la caracterización del ensuciamiento de membranas de Ósmosis Inversa aplicadas en desalación mediante microscopía electrónica de barrido y de fuerza atómica, y en el diseño y aplicación de ...
Luján Facundo, María José; Mendoza Roca, José Antonio; Cuartas Uribe, Beatriz Elena; Alvarez Blanco, Silvia(Elsevier, 2015-10)
The goal of this paper was to study the cleaning of two polyethersulfone (PES) membranes of different molecular weight and fouled with BSA solution. Ultrafiltration (UF) membranes were tested in a flat sheet module. Fouling ...
Luján Facundo, María José; Mendoza Roca, José Antonio; Cuartas Uribe, Beatriz Elena; Alvarez Blanco, Silvia(Elsevier, 2017)
[EN] Cost reduction and minimization of environmental impacts, based on by-product recovery, is the
objective of applying the ultrafiltration technology for the treatment of cheese whey. In this work, ultrafiltration
process ...
Corbatón Báguena, María José; Alvarez Blanco, Silvia; Vincent Vela, Maria Cinta(Elsevier, 2014-08-20)
In this work, three ultrafiltration (UF) membranes were fouled with whey model solutions that contained BSA (1% w/w) and CaCl2 (0.06% w/w). These membranes were cleaned with NaCl solutions. Temperature, crossflow velocity ...
Alventosa de Lara, Elena; Barredo Damas, Sergio; Alcaina Miranda, María Isabel; Iborra Clar, María Isabel(Elsevier, 2014-05)
Membrane fouling is one of the main drawbacks of ultrafiltration technology during the treatment of dye-containing effluents. Therefore, the optimization of the membrane cleaning procedure is essential to improve the overall ...
Luján Facundo, María José; Mendoza Roca, José Antonio; Cuartas Uribe, Beatriz Elena; Alvarez Blanco, Silvia(Elsevier, 2016-10)
The aim of this study was to investigate the behavior of two ultrafiltration (UF) membranes
after their fouling with different fouling solutions and cleaning with a surfactant, including
the application of ultrasounds ...
Luján Facundo, María José; Mendoza Roca, José Antonio; Cuartas Uribe, Beatriz Elena; Alvarez Blanco, Silvia(Elsevier, 2013)
The objective of this work was to investigate the effect of ultrasounds (US) on the flux recovery of ultrafiltration (UF) membranes fouled with bovine serum albumin (BSA) solution. Chemical cleaning was carried out with ...
Corbatón Báguena, María José; Alvarez Blanco, Silvia; Vincent Vela, Maria Cinta; Lora-García, Jaime(Elsevier, 2015-08-17)
In this work, whey protein concentrate (WPC) solutions at different concentrations (22.2, 333 and 150 g L-1) were used to foul three ultrafiltration (UF) membranes of different materials and molecular weight cut-offs ...