TY - JOUR
T1 - Critical flux of Gum Arabic
T2 - implications for fouling and fractionation performance of membranes
AU - Manning, Harriet
AU - Chong, Tzyy Haur
AU - Carr, David
AU - Bird, Michael R.
PY - 2016/1
Y1 - 2016/1
N2 - A flux-stepping method was used to determine the critical flux of 2 wt% gum arabic using flat sheet polysulfone membranes. These were found to be 27 L m-2 h-1 , 10 L m-2 h-1 and 22 L m-2 h-1 for 0.1, 0.5 and 0.8 μm polysulfone membranes, respectively. Increasing the cross flow velocity was found to raise the critical flux, although the effect diminished at higher velocities. These values were then used to assess the fouling and the fractionation performance of the three membranes above and below their critical fluxes.
AB - A flux-stepping method was used to determine the critical flux of 2 wt% gum arabic using flat sheet polysulfone membranes. These were found to be 27 L m-2 h-1 , 10 L m-2 h-1 and 22 L m-2 h-1 for 0.1, 0.5 and 0.8 μm polysulfone membranes, respectively. Increasing the cross flow velocity was found to raise the critical flux, although the effect diminished at higher velocities. These values were then used to assess the fouling and the fractionation performance of the three membranes above and below their critical fluxes.
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fbp.2015.10.005
U2 - 10.1016/j.fbp.2015.10.005
DO - 10.1016/j.fbp.2015.10.005
M3 - Article
SN - 0960-3085
VL - 97
SP - 41
EP - 47
JO - Food and Bioproducts Processing
JF - Food and Bioproducts Processing
ER -