[HTML][HTML] Biofouling potential indicators to assess pretreatment and mitigate biofouling in SWRO membranes: A short review

A Abushaban, SG Salinas-Rodriguez, M Philibert… - Desalination, 2022 - Elsevier
Many desalination plants still struggle to control biological fouling in seawater reverse
osmosis (SWRO) systems as there are no standard methods to monitor this type of fouling …

Fouling investigation of a full-scale seawater reverse osmosis desalination (SWRO) plant on the Red Sea: membrane autopsy and pretreatment efficiency

L Fortunato, AH Alshahri, ASF Farinha, I Zakzouk… - Desalination, 2020 - Elsevier
In this study, the membrane autopsy was performed on a full-scale seawater reverse
osmosis (SWRO) desalination plant located on the Red Sea. Several techniques were …

Water and microbial monitoring technologies towards the near future space exploration

S Amalfitano, C Levantesi, D Copetti, F Stefani… - Water Research, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Space exploration is demanding longer lasting human missions and water resupply
from Earth will become increasingly unrealistic. In a near future, the spacecraft water …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-parametric assessment of biological stability of drinking water produced from groundwater: Reverse osmosis vs. conventional treatment

M Sousi, G Liu, SG Salinas-Rodriguez, L Chen… - Water research, 2020 - Elsevier
Although water produced by reverse osmosis (RO) filtration has low bacterial growth
potential (BGP), post-treatment of RO permeate, which is necessary prior to distribution and …

Exogenous carbon substrates for biohydrogen production and organics removal using microalgal-bacterial co-culture

MA Javed, AM Zafar, S Al-Zuhair… - ACS Sustainable …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The co-culture of microalgae and bacteria is the most effective and appropriate pathway for
synergetic H2 production using photofermentative and biophotolytic metabolic pathways …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing pretreatment and seawater reverse osmosis performance using an ATP-based bacterial growth potential method

A Abushaban, SG Salinas-Rodriguez, N Dhakal… - Desalination, 2019 - Elsevier
Various bacterial growth potential (BGP) methods have been developed recently to monitor
biofouling in seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) systems such as assimilable organic …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing pretreatment effectiveness for particulate, organic and biological fouling in a full-Scale SWRO desalination plant

A Abushaban, SG Salinas-Rodriguez, D Pastorelli… - Membranes, 2021 - mdpi.com
In this study, the removal of particulate, organic and biological fouling potential was
investigated in the two-stage dual media filtration (DMF) pretreatment of a full-scale …

[HTML][HTML] Monitoring biofouling potential using ATP-based bacterial growth potential in SWRO pre-treatment of a full-scale plant

A Abushaban, SG Salinas-Rodriguez, M Kapala… - Membranes, 2020 - mdpi.com
Several potential growth methods have been developed to monitor biological/organic
fouling potential in seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO), but to date the correlation between …

[HTML][HTML] Development of digital image processing as an innovative method for activated sludge biomass quantification

H Asgharnejad, MH Sarrafzadeh - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Activated sludge process is the most common method for biological treatment of industrial
and municipal wastewater. One of the most important parameters in performance of …

[HTML][HTML] Measuring biofouling potential in SWRO plants with a flow-cytometry-based bacterial growth potential method

N Dhakal, SG Salinas-Rodriguez, J Ampah… - Membranes, 2021 - mdpi.com
Measuring the bacterial growth potential of seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) feed water is
an issue that is receiving growing attention. This study developed and demonstrated the …