Vibration of hollow fibre membranes in submerged membrane bio-reactors (SMBRs)

Abstract

Wing-Keung Law, for his invaluable advice and guidance, thoughtful consideration, excellent experience, as well as continuous inspiration through the author's whole research work. The author would gratefully acknowledge Prof Anthony Gordon Fane and Prof William Bill Krantz for their perspective knowledge and helpful suggestions and advice during all the project meetings. This thesis would not have been possible without the valuable contributions of Environment and Water Industry Department Council (EWI) Singapore, Singapore Membrane Technology Centre (SMTC) and Environment Lab of NTU. The author would like to acknowledge EWI for financial support and SMTC and Environment Lab for the experimental venue and apparatus support. The author also would like to thank Dr Adrian Yeo for his initial collaboration on the vibration setup, Dr Filicia Wicaksana for her instructions on the yeast washing procedures, and Dr Zhang Jinsong for his kind suggestions on the MBR reactor design.