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Also, the clean water flux obtained after filtering flocular sludge was higher than after filtering granular sludge, suggesting that irreversible membrane fouling caused by adsorption of soluble extracellular polymeric substances (sEPS) was more important in the granules than in the flocs. According to the results of this study, granular sludge might not be able to alleviate the membrane fouling problem in MBRs. 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