Membrane separation as a pre-treatment process for oily saline water

M Tawalbeh, A Al Mojjly, A Al-Othman, N Hilal - Desalination, 2018 - Elsevier
Oil and gas industry generate large quantities of oily wastewater effluents. This wastewater
has a major impact on the environment and human health. Hence, a suitable separation …

Advanced Rhodococcus Biocatalysts for Environmental Biotechnologies

A Krivoruchko, M Kuyukina, I Ivshina - Catalysts, 2019 - mdpi.com
The review is devoted to biocatalysts based on actinobacteria of the genus Rhodococcus,
which are promising for environmental biotechnologies. In the review, biotechnological …

Efficient removal of organic compounds from shale gas wastewater by coupled ozonation and moving-bed-biofilm submerged membrane bioreactor

X Liu, P Tang, Y Liu, W Xie, C Chen, T Li, Q He… - Bioresource …, 2022 - Elsevier
Shale gas wastewater (SGW) with complex composition and high salinity needs an
economical and efficient method of treatment with the main goal to remove organics. In this …

Oil-in-water emulsion breaking marine bacteria for demulsifying oily wastewater

Q Cai, Z Zhu, B Chen, B Zhang - Water Research, 2019 - Elsevier
Oily wastewater is a large waste stream produced by a number of industries. This
wastewater often forms stable oil-in-water (O/W) emulsion. These emulsions require …

A novel salt-tolerant bacterial consortium for biodegradation of saline and recalcitrant petrochemical wastewater

M Ahmadi, S Jorfi, R Kujlu, S Ghafari… - Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Treatment of a saline petrochemical wastewater with BOD 5/COD ratio of less than
0.1 was investigated using a consortium consisted of three isolated salt-tolerant bacteria …

Performance and microbial communities of different biofilm membrane bioreactors with pre-anoxic tanks treating mariculture wastewater

H Zhang, H Wang, M Jie, K Zhang, Y Qian, J Ma - Bioresource Technology, 2020 - Elsevier
The performance of pollutant removals, activated sludge characteristics, and microbial
communities of two biofilm membrane bioreactors coupled with pre-anoxic tanks (BF-AO …

Two-stage microbial fuel cell (MFC) and membrane bioreactor (MBR) system for enhancing wastewater treatment and resource recovery based on MFC as a …

S Zhao, H Yun, A Khan, ES Salama, MM Redina… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Lack of process control between the two stages of a combined microbial fuel cell-membrane
bioreactor (MFC-MBR) system limits its application in wastewater treatment due to …

Review of biological processes in a membrane bioreactor (MBR): effects of wastewater characteristics and operational parameters on biodegradation efficiency when …

A Bhattacharyya, L Liu, K Lee, J Miao - Journal of Marine Science and …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Oily wastewater is generated from various sources within the petrochemical industry,
including extraction, refining and processing, storage, and transportation. Over the years …

Degradation of n-alkanes and PAHs from the heavy crude oil using salt-tolerant bacterial consortia and analysis of their catabolic genes

R Gurav, H Lyu, J Ma, J Tang, Q Liu… - Environmental Science and …, 2017 - Springer
In the present study, salt-tolerant strains, Dietzia sp. HRJ2, Corynebacterium variabile HRJ4,
Dietzia cinnamea HRJ5 and Bacillus tequilensis HRJ6 were isolated from the Dagang oil …

Evaluation of a membrane bioreactor on dairy wastewater treatment and reuse in Uruguay

FA Fraga, HA García, CM Hooijmans, D Míguez… - International …, 2017 - Elsevier
Eutrophication episodes have been recently observed in the Santa Lucia river basin (SLRB)
in Uruguay, the main drinking water source for approximately 60% of the Uruguayan …