Fouling
Fouling (from English fouling , literally "pollution" or "contamination") characterizes different types of pollution:
- Fouling (shipbuilding) , the covering of hulls with biological deposits
- Fouling (cooling water) , the contamination of heat exchangers
- Fouling (membrane technology) , the contamination of filter membranes
- Contamination of ion exchange resins, see ion exchangers # Synthetic resin ion exchangers
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Wiktionary: fouling - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations