Fouling control in reverse osmosis for water desalination & reuse: Current practices & emerging environment-friendly technologies

A Matin, T Laoui, W Falath, M Farooque - Science of the total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Reverse Osmosis (RO) is becoming increasingly popular for seawater desalination and
wastewater reclamation. However, fouling of the membranes adversely impacts the overall …

Fouling of high pressure-driven NF and RO membranes in desalination processes: Mechanisms and implications on salt rejection

OT Mahlangu, LN Nthunya, MM Motsa, E Morifi… - … Research and Design, 2023 - Elsevier
Reverse osmosis (RO) membranes are widely used in seawater and brackish water
desalination. Although RO membranes achieve high salt removal> 99%, their application is …

Salt isolation from waste brine enabled by interfacial solar evaporation with zero liquid discharge

Y Wang, X Wu, P Wu, H Yu, J Zhao, X Yang… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The discharge of high volumes of waste brine from desalination plants is a serious
environmental challenge. While emerging zero liquid discharge (ZLD) technologies hold …

Effect of electrochemical pretreatment on the control of scaling and fouling caused by circulating cooling water on heat exchanger and side-stream reverse osmosis …

H Zhu, F Zheng, S Lu, L Hao, B Li, Z Mao… - Journal of Water …, 2021 - Elsevier
An environment-friendly electrochemical pretreatment process was used to purify the
circulating cooling water (Including salts extraction and organics removal), and the effect of …

Process improvement of sea water reverse osmosis (SWRO) and subsequent decarbonization

T Altmann, R Das - Desalination, 2021 - Elsevier
An enhanced RO desalination system is presented which improves the efficiency of the
coagulation system and helps to maintain (or even increase) first-pass recovery ratios, while …

A comprehensive review on desalination using membrane-based technologies in India: A bibliometric analysis and meta-analysis

P Ghosal, S Sahu, H Patel, PS Ghosal - Desalination, 2025 - Elsevier
Desalination using membrane-based technologies has proved to be an efficient technique
to minimize the vast repercussions of water scarcity compared to other existing desalination …

Alkaline pre-treatment enables controllable downcycling of Si-Al fouled end-of-life RO membrane to NF and UF membranes

H Wang, Y Xu, B Ma, W Zou, J Zeng, R Dai… - Journal of Membrane …, 2024 - Elsevier
Environmental and economic concerns necessitate the recycle of end-of-life (EOL) reverse
osmosis (RO) membranes. Controlled downcycling of EOL RO membrane to nanofiltration …

Chemical inhibition of combined gypsum and iron oxides membrane fouling during reverse osmosis desalination process: Prevention and regeneration of membranes

E Melliti, B Van der Bruggen, H Elfil - Desalination, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper explores the performance of carboxylic acids as environmentally friendly
chemical inhibitors and cleaning agents during combined membrane fouling by gypsum and …

Emergy analysis of seawater desalination system in coastal areas: a case study in Qingdao of China

L Yang, L Wang - Environment, Development and Sustainability, 2024 - Springer
Currently, seawater desalination technology, one of the important alternatives to address
water shortage, has been applied more widely in coastal areas. However, the sustainability …

End-of-life reverse osmosis membranes: Recycle procedure and its applications for the treatment of brackish and surface water

FII Seibel, GOMG Giubel, VB Brião… - Journal of Applied …, 2021 - arww.razi.ac.ir
As a result of population growth and potable water scarcity, an increasing number of reverse
osmosis desalination plants are being installed and operated (more than 15,000 in the …