The advancement in membrane bioreactor (MBR) technology toward sustainable industrial wastewater management

TU Rahman, H Roy, MR Islam, M Tahmid, A Fariha… - Membranes, 2023 - mdpi.com
The advancement in water treatment technology has revolutionized the progress of
membrane bioreactor (MBR) technology in the modern era. The large space requirement …

[HTML][HTML] Perspectives on biotechnological production of butyric acid from lignocellulosic biomass

M Kelbert, TO Machado, PHH Araújo, C Sayer… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2024 - Elsevier
Butyric acid is produced from the petroleum derivative propylene by chemical route. It is an
important precursor in the fuel, pharmaceutical, chemical, and food industries. However, due …

Fenton pretreatment to mitigate membrane distillation fouling during treatment of landfill leachate membrane concentrate: Performance and mechanism

Z Zhao, Y Zhang, L Yu, D Hou, X Wu, K Li, J Wang - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Membrane distillation (MD) is regarded as a promising technology for treatment of landfill
leachate membrane concentrate (LLMC) due to its merits of low cost and high rejection of …

[HTML][HTML] Challenges in unconventional catalysis

A Bogaerts, G Centi, V Hessel, E Rebrov - Catalysis Today, 2023 - Elsevier
Catalysis science and technology increased efforts recently to progress beyond
conventional" thermal" catalysis and face the challenges of net-zero emissions and …

A bioinspired capillary force‐induced driving strategy for constructing ultra‐low‐pressure separation membranes

J Yang, L Lin, F Tang, Z Zhang, Z Liu… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The development of low‐pressure or pressureless self‐driven membranes is important for
saving energy and overcoming the critical trade‐off effect in membrane separation …

Highly selective butyric acid production by coupled acidogenesis and ion substitution electrodialysis

W Zhao, B Yan, ZJ Ren, S Wang, Y Zhang, H Jiang - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Selective production of carboxylic acids (CAs) from mixed culture fermentation remains a
difficult task in organic waste valorization. Herein, we developed a facile and sustainable …

One-step fabrication of novel polyethersulfone-based composite electrospun nanofiber membranes for food industry wastewater treatment

MN Pervez, ME Talukder, MR Mishu, A Buonerba… - Membranes, 2022 - mdpi.com
Using an environmentally friendly approach for eliminating methylene blue from an aqueous
solution, the authors developed a unique electrospun nanofiber membrane made of a …

Performance and implications of forward osmosis-membrane distillation hybrid system for simultaneous treatment of different real produced water streams

MS Nawaz, T Alamoudi, S Soukane, HS Son… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
This study investigates the simultaneous treatment of different real produced water streams
using forward osmosis-membrane distillation (FO-MD) hybrid system. The water–oil …

Anaerobic digestion biorefinery for circular bioeconomy development

R Millati, R Wikandari, T Ariyanto, N Hasniah… - Bioresource Technology …, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper presents an overview of the concept of biorefinery based on anaerobic digestion
(AD) process that converts various wastes from easily degradable to challenging materials …

Double-stage membrane-assisted anaerobic digestion process intensification for production and recovery of volatile fatty acids from food waste

MN Pervez, B Bilgiç, A Mahboubi, C Uwineza… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
The potential of organic waste streams (ie, food waste) for the sustainable production of
precursor chemicals such as volatile fatty acids (VFAs) using anaerobic digestion (AD) has …