Patterned membranes for improving hydrodynamic properties and mitigating membrane fouling in water treatment: a review

Q Wang, W Lin, S Chou, P Dai, X Huang - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Membrane technologies have been widely applied in water treatment over the past few
decades. However, membrane fouling remains a hinderance for the widespread use of …

A review of CFD simulation in pressure driven membrane with fouling model and anti-fouling strategy

S Miao, J Ma, X Zhou, Y Zhang, H Chu - Frontiers of Environmental …, 2024 - Springer
Pressure-driven membrane filtration systems are widely utilized in wastewater treatment,
desalination, and water reclamation and have received extensive attention from …

Bubble turbulent gas-permeable membrane for ammonia recovery from swine wastewater: mass transfer enhancement and antifouling mechanisms

D Liu, W Wang, D Liu, Z Gao… - Environmental Science & …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Recovering ammonium from swine wastewater employing a gas-permeable membrane
(GM) has potential but suffers from the limitations of unattractive mass transfer and poor …

Anisotropic gypsum scaling of corrugated polyvinylidene fluoride hydrophobic membrane in direct contact membrane distillation

J Hu, HB Harandi, Y Chen, L Zhang, H Yin, T He - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Membrane distillation (MD) technology has gained a lot of attention for treatment of
geothermal brine, high salinity waste streams. However, mineral scaling remains a major …

Polysulfone ultrafiltration membranes fabricated from green solvents: Significance of coagulation bath composition

C Hackett, D Hale, B Bair, X Hao, X Qian… - Separation and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Even though membranes can lead to more environmentally sustainable separation
processes, membrane casting typically involves toxic organic solvents. Recently, there has …

Optimizing microstructure on surface of patterned membrane by smart algorithm and computational fluid dynamics

J Yang, Y Ma, C Ma - Journal of Water Process Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
Patterned membranes show excellent antifouling capacity compared to a similar membrane
without patterns under the same conditions. However, the size of a pattern must be …

Simple temperature-regulated polymerization for the fabrication of a tea polyphenols-modified PVDF membrane for emulsion separation

A **e, L Lu, C Wei, J Luo, T Tian, F Wang, Q Li… - New Journal of …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Surface modification of membranes through facile coating methods is a promising way to
improve their pollution resistance and separation performance. Herein, a tea polyphenol …

Performance of an aerobic granular sludge membrane filtration in a full-scale industrial plant

E Tsertou, M Caluwé, K Goossens… - Water Science & …, 2023 - iwaponline.com
This study quantifies the hydraulic performance of a pilot-scale ultrafiltration system
integrated into a full-scale industrial aerobic granular sludge (AGS) plant. The treatment …

Surface-Patterned Water Separation Membranes: A Critical Analysis of Current Knowledge and Future Research Needs

A Mitranescu, M Patel, S Panglisch, JE Drewes… - ACS ES&T …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Surface-patterned membranes with engineered nano-and microstructures are emerging as
a promising approach to mitigate fouling and enhance membrane performance in water …

Process intensification in the direct contact membrane distillation (DCMD) desalination by patterning membrane surface: A CFD study

S Zare, A Kargari - Chemical Engineering and Processing-Process …, 2024 - Elsevier
In this research, the impact of pattern geometry on the intensification of the performance of
surface patterned membranes for saline water desalination by direct contact membrane …