Reverse osmosis desalination: A state-of-the-art review

M Qasim, M Badrelzaman, NN Darwish, NA Darwish… - Desalination, 2019 - Elsevier
Water scarcity is a grand challenge that has always stimulated research interests in finding
effective means for pure water production. In this context, reverse osmosis (RO) is …

Fouling in membrane bioreactors: An updated review

F Meng, S Zhang, Y Oh, Z Zhou, HS Shin, SR Chae - Water research, 2017 - Elsevier
The goal of the current article is to update new findings in membrane fouling and emerging
fouling mitigation strategies reported in recent years (post 2010) as a follow-up to our …

Applications of tannic acid in membrane technologies: A review

W Yan, M Shi, C Dong, L Liu, C Gao - Advances in colloid and interface …, 2020 - Elsevier
Today, membrane technologies play a big role in chemical industry, especially in separation
engineering. Tannic acid, one of the most famous polyphenols, has attracted widespread …

Engineering antifouling reverse osmosis membranes: A review

S Zhao, Z Liao, A Fane, J Li, C Tang, C Zheng, J Lin… - Desalination, 2021 - Elsevier
Over the past decades, water scarcity and security have significantly stimulated the
advances of reverse osmosis (RO) technology, which dominates the global desalination …

MXene materials for designing advanced separation membranes

HE Karahan, K Goh, C Zhang, E Yang… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
MXenes are emerging rapidly as a new family of multifunctional nanomaterials with
prospective applications rivaling that of graphenes. Herein, a timely account of the design …

Emergence of MXene and MXene–polymer hybrid membranes as future‐environmental remediation strategies

A Khosla, Sonu, HTA Awan, K Singh, Gaurav… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The continuous deterioration of the environment due to extensive industrialization and
urbanization has raised the requirement to devise high‐performance environmental …

Nanocomposite membranes for water separation and purification: Fabrication, modification, and applications

MR Esfahani, SA Aktij, Z Dabaghian… - Separation and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Water pollution is one of the greatest challenges around the world. Nanocomposite
membranes are a promising modified version of traditional polymeric membranes for water …

Insights on the development of enhanced antifouling reverse osmosis membranes: Industrial applications and challenges

M Tawalbeh, L Qalyoubi, A Al-Othman, M Qasim… - Desalination, 2023 - Elsevier
Reverse osmosis (RO) membranes are widely employed due to their inherent advantage of
achieving excellent water permeation rates and high salt rejection. However, fouling is a …

Regulating the interfacial polymerization process toward high-performance polyamide thin-film composite reverse osmosis and nanofiltration membranes: A review

X Li, Z Wang, X Han, Y Liu, C Wang, F Yan… - Journal of Membrane …, 2021 - Elsevier
Polyamide (PA) thin-film composite (TFC) reverse osmosis (RO) and nanofiltration (NF)
membranes are the core elements for the membrane-based desalination technologies …

Membrane fouling in desalination and its mitigation strategies

PS Goh, WJ Lau, MHD Othman, AF Ismail - Desalination, 2018 - Elsevier
Water scarcity at global level has called for attentions to establish new and innovative
technologies that can be tapped to provide sustainable solutions to water crisis. Membrane …