Construction and validation of a long-channel membrane test cell for representative monitoring of performance and characterization of fouling over the length of spiral-wound membrane modules

The authors thank the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) for the financial support of the project “Fouling minimized reclamation of secondary effluents with Reverse Osmosis” (ReSeRO) under grant no. 02WA1076. Further, several people have given time and efforts on discussion of the introduced topic and are thus thanked Mr. A. Lerch (Chair of Water Supply Engineering, TU Dresden, Germany) for stimulating suggestions during the construction of the LCMTC, Mrs. J. Bruckner, Mr. G. Orzechowski and Mr. D. Diersche (Chair of Water Supply Engineering, TU Dresden, Germany) for their help regarding analysis and support on the setup of the test rig, respectively, Mr. D. Kreutzmann and Mr. M. Meinel for discussions on material strength and tensions, Mr. J. Friedrich (Institute of Lightweight Engineering and Polymer Technology, TU Dresden) for the supply of the PMMA model calculation on material strength and Mr. S. Bucs (KAUST) for his help with the Rhodamine B experiment.