A review of membrane fouling and its control in algal-related membrane processes

Y Liao, A Bokhary, E Maleki, B Liao - Bioresource technology, 2018 - Elsevier
Membrane technologies have received much attention in microalgae biorefinery for nutrients
removal from wastewater, carbon dioxide abatement from the air as well as the production of …

Occurrence and behaviors of fluorescence EEM-PARAFAC components in drinking water and wastewater treatment systems and their applications: a review

L Yang, J Hur, W Zhuang - Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2015 - Springer
Fluorescence excitation emission matrices-parallel factor analysis (EEM-PARAFAC) is a
powerful tool for characterizing dissolved organic matter (DOM), and it is applied in a rapidly …

Algal fouling of microfiltration and ultrafiltration membranes and control strategies: A review

Y Zhang, Q Fu - Separation and Purification Technology, 2018 - Elsevier
Microalgae are ubiquitous in aquatic systems and are a highly diversified group of uni-and
multicellular microorganisms. In low pressure-driven membrane systems, these cells and …

Effects of pre-ozonation on the ultrafiltration of different natural organic matter (NOM) fractions: membrane fouling mitigation, prediction and mechanism

X Cheng, H Liang, A Ding, F Qu, S Shao, B Liu… - Journal of membrane …, 2016 - Elsevier
The effects of pre-ozonation on ultrafiltration (UF) membrane fouling caused by different
natural organic matter (NOM) fractions were investigated. Three typical organic model …

Enriched autoinducer-2 (AI-2)-based quorum quenching consortium in a ceramic anaerobic membrane bioreactor (AnMBR) for biofouling retardation

B Xu, QAC Cho, TCA Ng, S Huang, HY Ng - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
This study is the first to enrich a facultative QQ consortium for AI-2-based quorum sensing
(QS) disruption (FQQ2) and discover its quorum quenching (QQ) performance in an …

Algae-laden water treatment using ultrafiltration: Individual and combined fouling effects of cells, debris, extracellular and intracellular organic matter

B Liu, F Qu, H Liang, Z Gan, H Yu, G Li… - Journal of Membrane …, 2017 - Elsevier
Membrane fouling is a major obstacle for applying Ultrafiltration (UF) in algae-laden water
treatments. Both membrane permeability and energy consumption may be negatively …

Impact of dataset diversity on accuracy and sensitivity of parallel factor analysis model of dissolved organic matter fluorescence excitation-emission matrix

H Yu, H Liang, F Qu, Z Han, S Shao, H Chang, G Li - Scientific Reports, 2015 - nature.com
Parallel factor (PARAFAC) analysis enables a quantitative analysis of excitation-emission
matrix (EEM). The impact of a spectral variability stemmed from a diverse dataset on the …

Effects of bio-carriers on membrane fouling mitigation in moving bed membrane bioreactor

F Chen, X Bi, HY Ng - Journal of membrane science, 2016 - Elsevier
Two moving bed membrane bioreactors (MBMBR) were compared with a conventional
membrane bioreactor (MBR) to investigate the effects of bio-carriers on membrane fouling …

Microcystis aeruginosa-laden surface water treatment using ultrafiltration: Membrane fouling, cell integrity and extracellular organic matter rejection

B Liu, F Qu, H Liang, B Van der Bruggen, X Cheng… - Water research, 2017 - Elsevier
Despite its superb separation performance, ultrafiltration (UF) still faces challenges in
treating the Microcystis aeruginosa-laden water of lakes or reservoirs, due to membrane …

Microalgal dewatering with focus on filtration and antifouling strategies: A review

VO Mkpuma, NR Moheimani, H Ennaceri - Algal Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Dewatering constitutes a major drawback in terms of cost and energy required to
concentrate a highly diluted microalgal culture. This has hampered the economic viability of …