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The MBR Book: Principles and Applications of Membrane

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286 <strong>The</strong> <strong>MBR</strong> <strong>Book</strong><br />

On the following pages are listed the membrane products which have either been<br />

used for membrane bioreactor (<strong>MBR</strong>) duties or are being recommended for this<br />

purpose by the suppliers (Table D.1). Those products in which no specifications are<br />

presented in the subsequent sections are italicised. <strong>The</strong>se products are either not<br />

commercially available or, as yet, have not been employed for <strong>MBR</strong> duties. Some<br />

multitube (MT) products may be used by process suppliers interchangeably in their<br />

processes provided they are a st<strong>and</strong>ard module size (typically 8� diameter modules).<br />

Note that a number <strong>of</strong> generic terms <strong>and</strong> definitions exist for the three <strong>MBR</strong> membrane<br />

configurations <strong>of</strong> flat sheet (FS), hollow fibre (HF) <strong>and</strong> MT (Table D.2). <strong>The</strong><br />

membrane module details <strong>of</strong> FS, HF <strong>and</strong> MT are given in Tables D.3–D.5.<br />

<strong>The</strong> specific membrane area (membrane area per unit module volume) refers to<br />

the area based on the FS panel or HF/MT module. <strong>The</strong> area per module (FS) or rack<br />

(HF) is given in parenthesis, where provided by the supplier. Abbreviations for membrane<br />

polymeric materials are:<br />

PAN polyacrylonitrile<br />

PE polyethylene<br />

PES polyethylsulphone<br />

PS polysulphone<br />

PVDF polyvinylidine difluoride<br />

Table D.1 <strong>Membrane</strong> products<br />

FS HF MT<br />

Kubota Asahi Kasei Bergh<strong>of</strong><br />

Huber Siemens Water Technologies – Memcor Norit X-Flow<br />

Orelis Pleiade ® Kolon Orelis Kerasep<br />

Colloide Mitsubishi Rayon Millenniumpore<br />

Brightwater Motimo<br />

ITRI non-woven Polymem<br />

Microdyn-Nadir Puron<br />

Han-S Zenon<br />

Ultraflo<br />

Table D.2 <strong>Membrane</strong> configuration definitions<br />

Generic term FS HF or MT<br />

<strong>Membrane</strong> Single sheet, or part there<strong>of</strong> Single filament/fibre or tube<br />

Element Panel Module<br />

Multiple element Module, cassette or stack Cassette, stack or rack<br />

Multiple multi-element Train Train

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