Scale formation and control in high pressure membrane water treatment systems: A review

A Antony, JH Low, S Gray, AE Childress… - Journal of membrane …, 2011 - Elsevier
The nucleation and growth of inorganic scale on membrane surfaces is a problem shared by
operators of reverse osmosis systems. While suite of indicators exists to predict scale …

Membrane processes for dye wastewater treatment: recent progress in fouling control

C Thamaraiselvan, M Noel - Critical Reviews in Environmental …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
The textile industry generates large volumes of effluents on a daily basis, which contains
substantial loads of organic compounds, inorganic salts, and suspended impurities …

Osmotic versus conventional membrane bioreactors integrated with reverse osmosis for water reuse: biological stability, membrane fouling, and contaminant removal

W Luo, HV Phan, M Xie, FI Hai, WE Price, M Elimelech… - Water research, 2017 - Elsevier
This study systematically compares the performance of osmotic membrane bioreactor–
reverse osmosis (OMBR-RO) and conventional membrane bioreactor–reverse osmosis …

Fouling and cleaning of RO membranes fouled by mixtures of organic foulants simulating wastewater effluent

WS Ang, A Tiraferri, KL Chen, M Elimelech - Journal of membrane science, 2011 - Elsevier
The fouling and subsequent cleaning of RO membranes fouled by a mixture of organic
foulants simulating wastewater effluent has been systematically investigated. The organic …

Combining MBR and NF/RO membrane filtration for the removal of trace organics in indirect potable water reuse applications

AA Alturki, N Tadkaew, JA McDonald, SJ Khan… - Journal of Membrane …, 2010 - Elsevier
The aim of this study was to demonstrate the complementarities of combining membrane
bioreactor (MBR) treatment with nanofiltration (NF) or reverse osmosis (RO) membrane …

Membrane distillation treatment of landfill leachate: Characteristics and mechanism of membrane fouling

Z Yan, Z Lu, X Chen, Y Jiang, Z Huang, L Liu… - Separation and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Landfill leachate (LFL), which contains organic and inorganic contaminants in high
concentration, poses a detrimental hazard to the ambient environment. Although membrane …

Membrane biofouling and scaling in forward osmosis membrane bioreactor

J Zhang, WLC Loong, S Chou, C Tang, R Wang… - Journal of membrane …, 2012 - Elsevier
The forward osmosis membrane bioreactor (FOMBR) has received much attention recently.
Due to the high rejection nature of FO membranes, the biomass, dissolved organic and …

Pressure retarded osmosis (PRO) for integrating seawater desalination and wastewater reclamation: Energy consumption and fouling

DI Kim, J Kim, HK Shon, S Hong - Journal of Membrane Science, 2015 - Elsevier
A hybrid process of pressure retarded osmosis (PRO) and reverse osmosis (RO) has a great
potential for successfully integrating wastewater reclamation with seawater desalination …

The feasibility of nanofiltration membrane bioreactor (NF-MBR)+ reverse osmosis (RO) process for water reclamation: Comparison with ultrafiltration membrane …

MF Tay, C Liu, ER Cornelissen, B Wu, TH Chong - Water research, 2018 - Elsevier
This study examines the feasibility of a novel nanofiltration membrane bioreactor (NF-MBR)
followed by reverse osmosis (RO) process for water reclamation at 90% recovery and using …

Evaluating the impact of pretreatment processes on fouling of reverse osmosis membrane by secondary wastewater

YH Cai, N Galili, Y Gelman, M Herzberg… - Journal of Membrane …, 2021 - Elsevier
Pretreatment of secondary effluents, containing relatively high concentrations of colloidal
particles, suspended solids, dissolved organics and high level of biological activity, is …