PTFE porous membrane technology: A comprehensive review

Q Guo, Y Huang, M Xu, Q Huang, J Cheng, S Yu… - Journal of Membrane …, 2022 - Elsevier
Membrane technology, as one of the key standard technologies for green chemistry and
sustainable development, has been applied for a wide range of separation and purification …

Mineral scaling induced membrane wetting in membrane distillation for water treatment: Fundamental mechanism and mitigation strategies

H Chang, Y Zhu, L Huang, Z Yan, F Qu, H Liang - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
The scaling-induced wetting phenomenon seriously affects the application of membrane
distillation (MD) technology in hypersaline wastewater treatment. Unlike the large amount of …

Understanding the membrane fouling control process at molecular level in the heated persulfate activation-membrane distillation hybrid system

M Ding, H Xu, C Yao, W Chen, N Song, Q Zhang, T Lin… - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Sulfate radical (SO 4●−) based advanced oxidation is considered as a promising
pretreatment strategy to degrade organic pollutants and thereby mitigate the membrane …

Unraveling the role of feed temperature and cross-flow velocity on organic fouling in membrane distillation using response surface methodology

F Ricceri, B Blankert, N Ghaffour, JS Vrouwenvelder… - Desalination, 2022 - Elsevier
Understanding the role of operating condition on fouling development in membrane
distillation (MD) is critical for the further optimization of MD technology. In this study, organic …

Anti-fouling and anti-wetting membranes for membrane distillation

S Kalla, KPS Piash, O Sanyal - Journal of Water Process Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Membrane Distillation (MD) is a thermally driven membrane separation process and shows
promising water recovery from diverse wastewater sources. While reverse osmosis (RO) …

Evaluation of membrane fouling in a microalgal-bacterial membrane photobioreactor: Effects of SRT

M Zhang, KT Leung, H Lin, B Liao - Science of the total environment, 2022 - Elsevier
As a novel system, the microalgal-bacterial membrane photobioreactor (MPBR) has better
performance than the conventional MBRs in membrane fouling control. Nevertheless, how …

Development and optimization of low surface free energy of rGO-PVDF mixed matrix membrane for membrane distillation

LLH Ting, YH Teow, E Mahmoudi, BS Ooi - Separation and Purification …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this research work, mixed matrix membranes were fabricated by synthesising and
blending reduced graphene oxide (rGO) in polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) membrane via a …

A numerical study of CaCO3 deposition on the membrane surface of direct contact membrane distillation

K Ali, MIH Ali - Desalination, 2024 - Elsevier
This numerical study investigates the effect of CaCO 3 deposition on the performance of
direct contact membrane distillation (DCMD). It is the first numerical study to directly evaluate …

Tracking fouling layer formation in membrane distillation of landfill leachate concentrate: Insights from periodic membrane autopsies

W Liu, R Xia, X Lin, Z Wang, AJ Ansari, G Li… - Journal of Membrane …, 2024 - Elsevier
This study tracked the fouling layer formation in the operation of membrane distillation (MD)
for the treatment of landfill leachate concentrate. At periodic intervals, the membrane fouling …

Multi-objective optimization of a direct contact membrane distillation regenerator for liquid desiccant regeneration

J Liu, W Lin, H Ren, AK Albdoor, FI Hai, Z Ma - Journal of Cleaner …, 2022 - Elsevier
Improving the performance of direct contact membrane distillation (DCMD) for liquid
desiccant regeneration has attracted increasing attention. This paper presents multi …