Bioinspired marine antifouling coatings: Antifouling mechanisms, design strategies and application feasibility studies

Z Li, P Liu, S Chen, X Liu, Y Yu, T Li, Y Wan… - European Polymer …, 2023 - Elsevier
Marine fouling is one of the major challenges facing humanity in marine industrial
production and transport activities. Traditional antifouling coatings use toxic antifouling …

Reverse osmosis and nanofiltration membranes for highly efficient PFASs removal: overview, challenges and future perspectives

TF Mastropietro, R Bruno, E Pardo… - Dalton Transactions, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Today, it is extremely urgent to face the increasing shortage of clean and safe water
resources, determined by the exponential growth of both world population and its …

Recent advances on the fabrication of antifouling phase-inversion membranes by physical blending modification method

TA Geleta, IV Maggay, Y Chang, A Venault - Membranes, 2023 - mdpi.com
Membrane technology is an essential tool for water treatment and biomedical applications.
Despite their extensive use in these fields, polymeric-based membranes still face several …

A review on membrane fouling prediction using artificial neural networks (ANNs)

WH Abuwatfa, N AlSawaftah, N Darwish, WG Pitt… - Membranes, 2023 - mdpi.com
Membrane fouling is a major hurdle to effective pressure-driven membrane processes, such
as microfiltration (MF), ultrafiltration (UF), nanofiltration (NF), and reverse osmosis (RO) …

Nanoporous membranes generated from self‐assembled block polymer precursors: Quo Vadis?

Y Zhang, JL Sargent, BW Boudouris… - Journal of Applied …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Nanoporous membranes based on self‐assembled block polymer precursors are an
emerging class of promising separation, purification, and sensing devices due to the ability …

Treatment of poultry slaughterhouse wastewater with membrane technologies: a review

F Fatima, H Du, RR Kommalapati - Water, 2021 - mdpi.com
Poultry slaughterhouses produce a large amount of wastewater, which is usually treated by
conventional methods. The traditional techniques face some challenges, especially the …

Fouling and cleaning studies in the food and beverage industry classified by cleaning type

KR Goode, K Asteriadou, PT Robbins… - … Reviews in Food …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Fouling of food process plant surfaces and the subsequent cleaning needed is a significant
industrial problem, and as the cost of water and chemical disposal increases, the problem is …

CO2 capture using membrane contactors: a systematic literature review

S Hafeez, T Safdar, E Pallari, G Manos… - Frontiers of Chemical …, 2021 - Springer
With fossil fuel being the major source of energy, CO 2 emission levels need to be reduced
to a minimal amount namely from anthropogenic sources. Energy consumption is expected …

Biomimetic hydrophobic membrane: A review of anti-wetting properties as a potential factor in membrane development for membrane distillation (MD)

WAFW AbdulKadir, AL Ahmad, OB Seng… - Journal of Industrial and …, 2020 - Elsevier
The development of superhydrophobic membranes had inspired by superhydrophobic
surfaces of biomimetic nature. Among the superhydrophobic nature surface,'lotus effect'with …

Fabrication of graphene-oxide and zeolite loaded polyvinylidene fluoride reverse osmosis membrane for saltwater remediation

F Hassan, R Mushtaq, S Saghar, U Younas, M Pervaiz… - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Incorporation of inorganic and organic materials in polymer has contributed well towards the
development of advanced reverse-osmosis membranes; with greater permeation, and salt …