Analysis of fouling development under dynamic membrane filtration operation

Analysis of Fouling Resistances under Dynamic Filtration of Pretreated Olive Mill Wastewater on a Loose Reverse Osmosis Membrane

Analysis of Fouling Resistances under Dynamic Filtration of Pretreated Olive Mill Wastewater on a Loose Reverse Osmosis Membrane Javier Miguel Ochando-Pulido, Marco Stoller, Antonio Martínez-Férez Chemical Engineering Department, University of Granada, Avda. Fuentnueva s/n, 18071 Granada, Spain b University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Department of Chemical Engineering, Via Eudossiana, 18-00184 Rome...

Fouling in Membrane Filtration and Remediation Methods

The growth of the membrane technologies has fell far behind the initial anticipation, one of the major obstacles, which hinders more widespread of its application, is that the filtration performance inevitably decreases with filtration time. This phenomenon is commonly termed as membrane fouling, which refers to the blockage of membrane pores during filtration by the combination of sieving and ...

A triple fouling layers perspective on evaluation of membrane fouling under different scenarios of membrane bioreactor operation

One of the main factors affecting membrane fouling in MBRs is operational conditions. In this study the influence of aeration rate, filtration mode, and SRT on hollow fiber membrane fouling was investigated using a triple fouling layers perspective. The sludge microbial population distribution was also determined by PCR method. Through various applied operational scenarios the optimal condition...

Prevention of Colloidal Fouling in Crossflow Membrane Filtration: Searching for Optimal Operation Conditions: Year 2

Effect of Filtration and Particulate Fouling in Membrane Distillation

Fouling and scaling in membrane distillation (MD) is one of the significant barriers to its continued growth. Fouling in MD blocks the pores, causing a decline in permeate flux, and may eventually lead to wetting of a hydrophobic membrane by the saline feed, contaminating the permeate. Many previous studies on MD have observed that while MD is more fouling resistant than reverse osmosis (RO), i...