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| White Paper on MBR standardisation - Final Report | |
| Project | AMEDEUS |
| Date | 18.2.2008 |
| Abstract | Based on an extensive survey of the MBR industry, this White Paper provides a comprehensive overview of the market interests/expectations and technical potential of going through a standardisation process of membrane bioreactor (MBR) technology in Europe. Today, the European MBR market is very fragmented, and exhibits many membrane characterisation methods and MBR filtration products with diverse dimensions, capacities and operational modes. This situation without standardisation is a bottleneck in the selection of MBR technology and its broad application. In 2005 the European Commission decided to boost the development and application of MBR processes for municipal wastewater treatment through financing a 3-year research project within the scope of the 6th Framework Program: AMEDEUS (accelerate membrane development for urban sewage purification). Within AMEDEUS an analysis of the potential for MBR standardisation was carried out by Aquafin and Anjou Recherche, in liaison with the Centre Européen de Normailisation (CEN). In total, 80 companies and institutions active in all areas of the European MBR market were identified after a thorough market review and individually contacted with an extensive questionnaire. The response rate was spectacular and demonstrated the interest of the industry in this initiative: 45 contacts cooperated to this study. Due to the predominance of submerged filtration systems in municipal applications, representing 99% of the installed membrane surface of MBR systems in Europe in the period 2002-2005, the study focuses only on this configuration. Two different aspects of standardisation are considered: • MBR filtration modules (standardisation towards interchangeable modules in MBRs) • characterisation methods for membrane acceptance, fouling, integrity and ageing (standardisation towards uniform quality assessment methods) |
| Pages | 125 |
| Download | pdf (2.00 MB) |
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