Membrane fouling

Polymer-flooding process is one of tertiary oil extraction technologies. It has stepped into industrialization application period in Daqing Oilfield (China) in recent years. It plays an increasingly important role in the oil exploitation, but around 60 million ton polymer-flooding wastewater is prod

One of the critical issues for the successful application of ultrafitration in water treatment is membrane fouling due to dissolved organic matter, which negatively affects productivity, product quality and process cost. The aim of the present study is to contribute to the understanding of fouling p

The extraction and analysis of EPS in active biomass and membrane fouling were performed to investigate the influence of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) on membrane fouling of MBR. The new membrane and fouling membrane surface morphology was characterized by EDX analysis. The results show t

Ultrasound was applied to the control of membrane fouling development on-line in an anaerobic membrane bioreactor (AMBR). Experimental results showed that the higher the sludge concentration, the longer the ultrasonic irradiation time should be for membrane fouling control. When the AMBR operated un

This paper describes the findings of an experimental investigation carried out on a pilot scale membrane bioreactor (MBR) with the addition of powdered activated carbon (PAC) to analyze improvements in effluent quality and in the filtration process. The results refer to a pilot plant monitoring stre

A combination of coagulation and ultrafiltration (UF) processes for textile wastewater reclamation was investigated using various types of coagulating chemicals such as polyamine, alum, polyaluminum chloride (PACl), and ferric salts. The potential of the combined system was evaluated to replace the

This study is aimed using ozonation to remove the fouling that occurs on ultrafiltration membranes. Polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) was utilized for the membrane material. The tertiary effluent from industrial park wastewater plant was treated by an ultrafiltration membrane process. A bench-scale sys

Membrane bioreactors (MBRs) are commonly understood as the combination of membrane filtration and biological treatment using activated sludge. Development of a biofilm-MBR has been investigated combining a moving-bed-biofilm reactor with a submerged membrane biomass separation reactor. Treatment eff

Biological treatment of high-strength nitrogen wastewater by a combined anaerobic (upflow sludge bed filter, UBF)/aerobic (membrane bioreactor, MBR) system has been studied. This system exhibited high performance on the removal of organic matter and nitrogen simultaneously. Organic and nitrogen conc

This paper describes the characterization and evaluation of various RO/NF membranes for the treatment of seasonally brackish surface water with high organic contents (TOC ≈ mg/L). Twenty commercially available 21 RO and NF membranes were initially evaluated by performing controlled bench-scale flat-