This presentation discusses fiber breakage in membrane filtration modules and the various methods of determining integrity. Discussed are bypass flow hydraulic modeling, the use of pressure decay testing and the Kenosha cut fiber study to model system integrity....

This paper is a case study of the City of Yuba City operates a 36 mgd surface water treatment plant. The paper covers testing of conventional and membrane filtration systems as well as full scale membrane operation when membrane integrity issues began to impact operations. Testing was conducted on new membrane filtration modules with improved abras...