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Microfiltration, the Glossary

Microfiltration is a type of physical filtration process where a contaminated fluid is passed through a special pore-sized membrane filter to separate microorganisms and suspended particles from process liquid.^[1]

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Biochemical separation processes
Filtration techniques

Algae

Algae (alga) are any of a large and diverse group of photosynthetic, eukaryotic organisms.

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Aluminium

Aluminium (Aluminum in North American English) is a chemical element; it has symbol Al and atomic number 13.

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Aluminium oxide

Aluminium oxide (or aluminium(III) oxide) is a chemical compound of aluminium and oxygen with the chemical formula.

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Angstrom

The angstrom is a unit of length equal to m; that is, one ten-billionth of a metre, a hundred-millionth of a centimetre, 0.1 nanometre, or 100 picometres.

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Arsenic

Arsenic is a chemical element with the symbol As and the atomic number 33.

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Bacteria

Bacteria (bacterium) are ubiquitous, mostly free-living organisms often consisting of one biological cell.

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Bioprocess

A bioprocess is a specific process that uses complete living cells or their components (e.g., bacteria, enzymes, chloroplasts) to obtain desired products.

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Boundary layer

In physics and fluid mechanics, a boundary layer is the thin layer of fluid in the immediate vicinity of a bounding surface formed by the fluid flowing along the surface.

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Broth

Broth, also known as bouillon, is a savory liquid made of water in which meat, fish, or vegetables have been simmered for a short period of time.

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Casein

Casein (from Latin caseus "cheese") is a family of related phosphoproteins (αS1, aS2, β, κ) that are commonly found in mammalian milk, comprising about 80% of the proteins in cow's milk and between 20% and 60% of the proteins in human milk.

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Cellulose acetate

In biochemistry, cellulose acetate refers to any acetate ester of cellulose, usually cellulose diacetate.

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Chlorine

Chlorine is a chemical element; it has symbol Cl and atomic number 17.

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Citric acid

Citric acid is an organic compound with the chemical formula.

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Coagulation

Coagulation, also known as clotting, is the process by which blood changes from a liquid to a gel, forming a blood clot.

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Colloid

A colloid is a mixture in which one substance consisting of microscopically dispersed insoluble particles is suspended throughout another substance.

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Contamination

Contamination is the presence of a constituent, impurity, or some other undesirable element that renders something unsuitable, unfit or harmful for physical body, natural environment, workplace, etc.

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Control theory

Control theory is a field of control engineering and applied mathematics that deals with the control of dynamical systems in engineered processes and machines.

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Cross-flow filtration

In chemical engineering, biochemical engineering and protein purification, cross-flow filtration (also known as tangential flow filtration) is a type of filtration (a particular unit operation). Microfiltration and cross-flow filtration are biochemical separation processes, filtration techniques and membrane technology.

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Cryptosporidium

Cryptosporidium, sometimes called crypto, is an apicomplexan genus of alveolates which are parasites that can cause a respiratory and gastrointestinal illness (cryptosporidiosis) that primarily involves watery diarrhea (intestinal cryptosporidiosis), sometimes with a persistent cough (respiratory cryptosporidiosis).

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Darcy's law

Darcy's law is an equation that describes the flow of a fluid through a porous medium.

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Demand

In economics, demand is the quantity of a good that consumers are willing and able to purchase at various prices during a given time.

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Density

Density (volumetric mass density or specific mass) is a substance's mass per unit of volume.

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Depth filter

Depth filters are filters that use a porous filtration medium to retain particles throughout the medium, rather than just on the surface of the medium.

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Detergent

A detergent is a surfactant or a mixture of surfactants with cleansing properties when in dilute solutions.

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Disinfectant

A disinfectant is a chemical substance or compound used to inactivate or destroy microorganisms on inert surfaces.

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Drink

A drink or beverage is a liquid intended for human consumption.

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Ecotoxicity

Ecotoxicity, the subject of study in the field of ecotoxicology (a portmanteau of ecology and toxicology), refers to the biological, chemical or physical stressors that affect ecosystems.

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Entrainment (engineering)

In engineering, entrainment is the entrapment of one substance by another substance.

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Eutrophication

Eutrophication is a general term describing a process in which nutrients accumulate in a body of water, resulting in an increased growth of microorganisms that may deplete the oxygen of water.

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Filtration

Filtration is a physical separation process that separates solid matter and fluid from a mixture using a filter medium that has a complex structure through which only the fluid can pass.

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Flocculation

In colloidal chemistry, flocculation is a process by which colloidal particles come out of suspension to sediment in the form of floc or flake, either spontaneously or due to the addition of a clarifying agent.

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Flue

A flue is a duct, pipe, or opening in a chimney for conveying exhaust gases from a fireplace, furnace, water heater, boiler, or generator to the outdoors.

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Fluid

In physics, a fluid is a liquid, gas, or other material that may continuously move and deform (flow) under an applied shear stress, or external force.

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Flux

Flux describes any effect that appears to pass or travel (whether it actually moves or not) through a surface or substance.

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Fouling

Fouling is the accumulation of unwanted material on solid surfaces. Microfiltration and Fouling are water technology.

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Giardia duodenalis

Giardia duodenalis, also known as Giardia intestinalis and Giardia lamblia, is a flagellated parasitic protozoan microorganism of the genus Giardia that colonizes the small intestine, causing a diarrheal condition known as giardiasis.

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Global warming potential

Global warming potential (GWP) is an index to measure how much infrared thermal radiation a greenhouse gas would absorb over a given time frame after it has been added to the atmosphere (or emitted to the atmosphere).

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Glucose

Glucose is a sugar with the molecular formula.

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Hagen–Poiseuille equation

In nonideal fluid dynamics, the Hagen–Poiseuille equation, also known as the Hagen–Poiseuille law, Poiseuille law or Poiseuille equation, is a physical law that gives the pressure drop in an incompressible and Newtonian fluid in laminar flow flowing through a long cylindrical pipe of constant cross section.

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Hollow fiber membrane

Hollow fiber membranes (HFMs) are a class of artificial membranes containing a semi-permeable barrier in the form of a hollow fiber. Microfiltration and hollow fiber membrane are membrane technology.

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Iron

Iron is a chemical element.

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Landform

A landform is a natural or anthropogenic land feature on the solid surface of the Earth or other planetary body.

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Life-cycle assessment

Life cycle assessment (LCA), also known as life cycle analysis, is a methodology for assessing environmental impacts associated with all the stages of the life cycle of a commercial product, process, or service.

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Mechanical screening

Mechanical screening, often just called screening, is the practice of taking granulated or crushed ore material and separating it into multiple grades by particle size.

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Medication

A medication (also called medicament, medicine, pharmaceutical drug, medicinal drug or simply drug) is a drug used to diagnose, cure, treat, or prevent disease.

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Membrane technology

Membrane technology encompasses the scientific processes used in the construction and application of membranes.

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Micrometre

The micrometre (Commonwealth English) as used by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures; SI symbol: μm) or micrometer (American English), also commonly known by the non-SI term micron, is a unit of length in the International System of Units (SI) equalling (SI standard prefix "micro-".

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Microorganism

A microorganism, or microbe, is an organism of microscopic size, which may exist in its single-celled form or as a colony of cells. The possible existence of unseen microbial life was suspected from ancient times, such as in Jain scriptures from sixth century BC India. The scientific study of microorganisms began with their observation under the microscope in the 1670s by Anton van Leeuwenhoek.

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Operating cost

Operating costs or operational costs, are the expenses which are related to the operation of a business, or to the operation of a device, component, piece of equipment or facility.

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Operating temperature

An operating temperature is the allowable temperature range of the local ambient environment at which an electrical or mechanical device operates.

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Organic matter

Organic matter, organic material, or natural organic matter refers to the large source of carbon-based compounds found within natural and engineered, terrestrial, and aquatic environments.

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Parabola

In mathematics, a parabola is a plane curve which is mirror-symmetrical and is approximately U-shaped.

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Pascal (unit)

The pascal (symbol: Pa) is the unit of pressure in the International System of Units (SI).

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Pasteurization

In the field of food processing, pasteurization (also pasteurisation) is a process of food preservation in which packaged and unpacked foods (e.g., milk and fruit juices) are treated with mild heat, usually to less than, to eliminate pathogens and extend shelf life.

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Pathogen

In biology, a pathogen (πάθος, "suffering", "passion" and -γενής, "producer of"), in the oldest and broadest sense, is any organism or agent that can produce disease.

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Perforation

A perforation is a small hole in a thin material or web.

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Permeation

In physics and engineering, permeation (also called imbuing) is the penetration of a permeate (a fluid such as a liquid, gas, or vapor) through a solid.

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PH

In chemistry, pH, also referred to as acidity or basicity, historically denotes "potential of hydrogen" (or "power of hydrogen").

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Phosphorus

Phosphorus is a chemical element; it has symbol P and atomic number 15.

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Photo-oxidation of polymers

In polymer chemistry photo-oxidation (sometimes: oxidative photodegradation) is the degradation of a polymer surface due to the combined action of light and oxygen.

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Pleat

A pleat (plait in older English) is a type of fold formed by doubling fabric back upon itself and securing it in place.

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Polyamide

A polyamide is a polymer with repeating units linked by amide bonds.

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Polysulfone

Polysulfones are a family of high performance thermoplastics.

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Polyvinylidene fluoride

Polyvinylidene fluoride or polyvinylidene difluoride (PVDF) is a highly non-reactive thermoplastic fluoropolymer produced by the polymerization of vinylidene difluoride.

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Porosity

Porosity or void fraction is a measure of the void (i.e. "empty") spaces in a material, and is a fraction of the volume of voids over the total volume, between 0 and 1, or as a percentage between 0% and 100%.

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Pressure measurement

Pressure measurement is the measurement of an applied force by a fluid (liquid or gas) on a surface.

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Protozoa

Protozoa (protozoan or protozoon; alternative plural: protozoans) are a polyphyletic group of single-celled eukaryotes, either free-living or parasitic, that feed on organic matter such as other microorganisms or organic debris.

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Pump

A pump is a device that moves fluids (liquids or gases), or sometimes slurries, by mechanical action, typically converted from electrical energy into hydraulic energy.

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Reverse osmosis

Reverse osmosis (RO) is a water purification process that uses a semi-permeable membrane to separate water molecules from other substances. Microfiltration and Reverse osmosis are membrane technology and water technology.

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Reynolds number

In fluid dynamics, the Reynolds number is a dimensionless quantity that helps predict fluid flow patterns in different situations by measuring the ratio between inertial and viscous forces.

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Sand filter

Sand filters are used as a step in the water treatment process of water purification.

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Screen filter

A screen filter is a type of water purification using a rigid or flexible screen to separate sand and other fine particles out of water for irrigation or industrial applications. Microfiltration and screen filter are water technology.

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Seawater

Seawater, or sea water, is water from a sea or ocean.

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Sediment

Sediment is a naturally occurring material that is broken down by processes of weathering and erosion, and is subsequently transported by the action of wind, water, or ice or by the force of gravity acting on the particles.

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Sedimentation (water treatment)

The physical process of sedimentation (the act of depositing sediment) has applications in water treatment, whereby gravity acts to remove suspended solids from water.

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Sensor

A sensor is a device that produces an output signal for the purpose of detecting a physical phenomenon.

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Sintering

Sintering or frittage is the process of compacting and forming a solid mass of material by pressure or heat without melting it to the point of liquefaction.

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Sodium hydroxide

Sodium hydroxide, also known as lye and caustic soda, is an inorganic compound with the formula.

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Solution (chemistry)

In chemistry, a solution is a special type of homogeneous mixture composed of two or more substances.

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Suspension (chemistry)

In chemistry, a suspension is a heterogeneous mixture of a fluid that contains solid particles sufficiently large for sedimentation.

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Swash

Swash, or forewash in geography, is a turbulent layer of water that washes up on the beach after an incoming wave has broken.

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Synthetic membrane

An artificial membrane, or synthetic membrane, is a synthetically created membrane which is usually intended for separation purposes in laboratory or in industry. Microfiltration and synthetic membrane are membrane technology.

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Turbidity

Turbidity is the cloudiness or haziness of a fluid caused by large numbers of individual particles that are generally invisible to the naked eye, similar to smoke in air.

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Ultrafiltration

Ultrafiltration (UF) is a variety of membrane filtration in which forces such as pressure or concentration gradients lead to a separation through a semipermeable membrane. Microfiltration and Ultrafiltration are filtration techniques and membrane technology.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microfiltration

Also known as Micro filtration, Micropore filters.

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Biochemical separation processes

Filtration techniques

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