Reverse osmosis desalination: A state-of-the-art review

M Qasim, M Badrelzaman, NN Darwish, NA Darwish… - Desalination, 2019 - Elsevier
Water scarcity is a grand challenge that has always stimulated research interests in finding
effective means for pure water production. In this context, reverse osmosis (RO) is …

Gravity-driven membrane filtration for water and wastewater treatment: a review

W Pronk, A Ding, E Morgenroth, N Derlon, P Desmond… - Water research, 2019 - Elsevier
Gravity-driven membrane (GDM) filtration has been investigated for almost 10 years. The
technology is characterized not only by relatively lower transmembrane pressures which can …

Reverse osmosis pretreatment technologies and future trends: A comprehensive review

SF Anis, R Hashaikeh, N Hilal - Desalination, 2019 - Elsevier
Recent progress in reverse osmosis (RO) technology is not limited to RO membrane
materials, module designs and RO process optimization. It involves prior feed treatment …

Flower-like nanocomposite of carbon quantum dots, MoS2, and dendritic Ag-based Z-scheme type photocatalysts for effective tartrazine degradation

H Teymourinia, S Rtimi, M Ghalkhani… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Nanocomposites of carbon quantum dots, molybdenum disulfide, and dendritic silver (MoS
2/CQD/dendritic Ag) were synthesized via a facile and inexpensive procedure and utilized to …

Fouling mitigation in forward osmosis and membrane distillation for desalination

WJ Lee, ZC Ng, SK Hubadillah, PS Goh, WJ Lau… - Desalination, 2020 - Elsevier
Freshwater scarcity is one of the grand challenges that has posed threats to the global
economy, societal stability and ecosystem balance. Desalination has been long recognized …

Controlling the hydraulic resistance of membrane biofilms by engineering biofilm physical structure

P Desmond, KT Huisman, H Sanawar, NM Farhat… - Water research, 2022 - Elsevier
The application of membrane technology for water treatment and reuse is hampered by the
development of a microbial biofilm. Biofilm growth in micro-and ultrafiltration (MF/UF) …

[HTML][HTML] A comprehensive review of pre-and post-treatment approaches to achieve sustainable desalination for different water streams

K Poirier, M Lotfi, K Garg, K Patchigolla, EJ Anthony… - Desalination, 2023 - Elsevier
Desalination is an energy intensive process requiring adequate pre-and post-treatment. The
novelty of this paper is that it jointly reviews the technologies for pre-treatment, desalination …

Noninvasive monitoring of fouling in membrane processes by optical coherence tomography: a review

KT Huisman, B Blankert, H Horn, M Wagner… - Journal of Membrane …, 2024 - Elsevier
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) has emerged as a powerful noninvasive technique for
monitoring fouling in membrane filtration systems for water and wastewater treatment and …

A low energy gravity-driven membrane bioreactor system for grey water treatment: Permeability and removal performance of organics

A Ding, H Liang, G Li, I Szivak, J Traber… - Journal of Membrane …, 2017 - Elsevier
Synthetic grey water was treated with a low-pressure gravity-driven membrane bioreactor
(GDMBR) system. The system was operated without any direct shear at the membrane …

Fouling control in a gravity-driven membrane (GDM) bioreactor treating primary wastewater by using relaxation and/or air scouring

L Fortunato, L Ranieri, V Naddeo, TO Leiknes - Journal of Membrane …, 2020 - Elsevier
Gravity-driven membrane bioreactors (GD-MBR) have been proposed as a sustainable
water treatment due to the low energy requirements in terms of operation. The objective of …