Waste to wealth: A critical analysis of resource recovery from desalination brine

I Ihsanullah, J Mustafa, AM Zafar, M Obaid, MA Atieh… - Desalination, 2022 - Elsevier
Desalination brine has several potential adverse impacts on the marine environment.
Though, the concerns and counter-arguments regarding the environmental impacts of …

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 …

A comprehensive evaluation of the temporal and spatial fouling characteristics of RO membranes in a full-scale seawater desalination plant

C Chen, Y Yang, NJD Graham, Z Li, X Yang, Z Wang… - Water research, 2024 - Elsevier
The fouling of seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) membranes remains a persistent
challenge in desalination. Previous research has focused mainly on fouling separately; …

Contemporary antibiofouling modifications of reverse osmosis membranes: State-of-the-art insights on mechanisms and strategies

Y Guo, C Liu, H Liu, J Zhang, H Li, C Zhang - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
The Reverse osmosis (RO) membrane technology is a promising technology for wastewater
treatment and seawater or brackish water desalination. However, membrane biofouling …

Alleviation of RO membrane fouling in wastewater reclamation plants using an enhanced acid-base chemical cleaning method

L Zihao, J Wang, L Cheng, Q Yang, P Li, X Dong, B Xu… - Water Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Membrane fouling has always been a critical constraint in the operation of the reverse
osmosis (RO) process, and chemical cleaning is essential for mitigating membrane fouling …

Necessity of direct energy and ammonium recovery for carbon neutral municipal wastewater reclamation in an innovative anaerobic MBR-biochar adsorption-reverse …

X Zhang, J Gu, Y Liu - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
With the speedy evolution of global climate change and water shortage, there is a growing
need for the energy and carbon neutral wastewater reclamation technology. To tackle this …

Antifouling nanocellulose membranes: How subtle adjustment of surface charge lead to self-cleaning property

M Yang, P Hadi, X Yin, J Yu, X Huang, H Ma… - Journal of Membrane …, 2021 - Elsevier
Membrane fouling is a major issue in wastewater treatment. In this study, a unique class of
low fouling nanocellulose-enabled thin film nanofibrous composite (TFNC) ultrafiltration (UF) …

Surface characterization of end-of-life reverse osmosis membranes from a full-scale advanced water reuse facility: Combined role of bioorganic materials and silicon …

B Abada, J Safarik, KP Ishida, S Chellam - Journal of Membrane Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Eight-year-old end-of-life reverse osmosis (RO) membranes from all three stages of a full-
scale plant from the world's largest potable reuse facility were comprehensively …

Interfacial reactions of catalytic ozone membranes resulting in the release and degradation of irreversible foulants

Z Song, Y Li, Z Wang, J Sun, X Xu, Z Huangfu, C Li… - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
An efficient in-situ self-cleaning catalytic ceramic-membrane tailored with MnO 2-Co 3 O 4
nanoparticles (Mn-Co-CM) was fabricated. Density functional theory calculations result …

Advancing strategies of biofouling control in water-treated polymeric membranes

H Zhang, S Zhu, J Yang, A Ma - Polymers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Polymeric membranes, such as polyamide thin film composite membranes, have gained
increasing popularity in wastewater treatment, seawater desalination, as well as the …