Dissolved air flotation pretreatment for low-pressure membranes in water treatment: A review of fouling mitigation and product water quality

JD Ladouceur, RM Narbaitz, CQ Lan - Journal of Water Process …, 2023 - Elsevier
Coagulation/flocculation/dissolved air flotation (CF-DAF) has garnered increased interest in
recent years as pretreatment for low-pressure membranes (LPM) due to its ability to treat …

Robust bifunctional compressed carbon foam for highly effective oil/water emulsion separation

S Yang, L Chen, S Liu, W Hou, J Zhu… - … Applied Materials & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
In this study, we report the pure compressed carbon foam (CCF) that offers a brand-new
solution for separating emulsified oil/water mixtures. The CCF was fabricated by low …

Flux vs. permeability: How to effectively evaluate mass transfer performance of membranes in oil-water separation

T Ni, L Kong, Z Xie, J Lin, S Zhao - Journal of Water Process Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Membrane filtration has attracted surging attention for various water treatment applications,
such as oil-water separation, because of its low energy consumption, high separation …

Recent progress and technical improvement strategies for mitigating ceramic membrane bottlenecks in water purification processes: A review

NMA Omar, MHD Othman, ZS Tai… - … Journal of Applied …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Ceramic membranes offer considerable promise for future industrial applications due to their
superior chemical, mechanical, and thermal stabilities, resistance to harsh operating …

Co-pressing and co-sintering preparation of cost-effective and high-performance asymmetric ceramic membrane for oily wastewater treatment

J Ma, W Chen, J Qian, A Shui, B Du, C He - Separation and Purification …, 2023 - Elsevier
High-performance asymmetric ceramic membranes have shown great potential in
wastewater treatment. Nevertheless, high production cost, which results from expensive raw …

Biomimetic mineralization of nacre-inspired multiple crosslinked PVA/CaAlg/SiO2 membrane with simultaneously enhanced mechanical and separation properties

S Ma, W Shi, H Li, Y Zhang - International Journal of Biological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Inspired by the natural nacre structure, we propose a new strategy to fabricate mineralized,
multiple crosslinked hydrogel membranes with the “rigid silica in soft polymer” nacre-like …

Enhancement of super-hydrophilic/underwater super-oleophobic performance of ceramic membrane with TiO2 nanowire array prepared via low temperature oxidation

Y Gao, W Hao, G Xu, C Wang, X Gu, P Zhao - Ceramics International, 2022 - Elsevier
A gradient porous ceramic membrane with surface super-hydrophilic and underwater super-
oleophobic performance was prepared by combining hydrogel directional freezing method …

Effective construction of anti-fouling zwitterion-functionalized ceramic membranes for separation of oil-in-water emulsion based on PDA/PEI co-deposition

W Luan, C Nie, X Chen, Z Tang, M Qiu, Y Fan - Journal of Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Ceramic membranes have been widely used in oil-water separation owing to their
characteristics of high flux, excellent chemical stability, strong hydrophilicity, and good …

[HTML][HTML] Theory of oil fouling for microfiltration and ultrafiltration membranes in produced water treatment

E Virga, RW Field, PM Biesheuvel… - Journal of colloid and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Due to the complexity of oil-in-water emulsions, the existing literature is still missing a
mathematical tool that can describe membrane fouling in a fully quantitative manner on the …

Photo-Fenton catalyst Fe (III)@ PCN-222 grafted on PVDF membrane for multitasking applications: Oil/water separation, aromatic pollutants degradation and bacterial …

J Xue, M Yuan, J Gao, Z Zhang, M Wang… - Process Safety and …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this work, a novel PCN-222 metal− organic framework based multitasking membrane was
developed for separation of emulsified oils as well as photo-Fenton degradation of refractory …