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R col (m -1 )SRF (m·kg -1 )Membrane fouling in an AnMBR treating industrial wastewater at high total solids concentrations7E+166E+165E+164E+163E+160 500 1000 1500 2000Time (s)Figure 7.6. Evolution of SRF <strong>with</strong>out PAC (•) <strong>and</strong> <strong>with</strong> 1.5 g·L -1 of PAC (•).8E+136E+134E+132E+1300 500 1000 1500Time (s)Figure 7.7. Resistance of colloidal fraction <strong>with</strong>out PAC (•) <strong>and</strong> <strong>with</strong> 1.5 g·L -1 of PAC (•).In this work, a novel approach to filterability experiments is proposed. Dead-endfiltration studies of activated sludge (Sørensen <strong>and</strong> Sørensen, 1997) <strong>and</strong> studies of<strong>membrane</strong> bioreactor sludge have indicated that sludge is highly compressible (Bugge etal., 2012). Nevertheless, the MBR-cake-fouling models found in the literature often useconstant values for the specific resistance to filtration (Li <strong>and</strong> Wang, 2006), neglectingcompressibility. This assumption would cause significant errors in analyzing filtration data,especially at high solids concentration. Therefore, fouling layer compressibility should beconsidered in order to fully underst<strong>and</strong> changes in filterability during operation.185

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