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In this work, we studied systematically the effects of NCIF on defouling for a range of solutes that foul (BSA protein) and form cakes (alumina colloids) on the membrane thereby causing severe reduction in the flux. Changing the gravitational orientation of the batch cell induces NCIF in the membrane module and higher inclined angle offers stronger NCIF. This induced NCIF enhances back transport of the deposited solutes away from the membrane surface, therefore gives for the improvement of membrane performance. The flux results according to the inclined angles (from 0° to 180°) of the batch cell were analyzed by the pore blocking filtration model. It was shown that NCIF reduced the fouling of intermediate pore blocking by about 66% at the beginning of UF operation, and thereafter reduced the fouling of cake filtration by about 98%.
