A review of combined fouling on high-pressure membranes in municipal wastewater reuse: Behaviors, mechanisms, and pretreatment mitigation strategies

XY Liu, YB Chen, J Fu, X Zhu, LY Lv, L Sun… - Chemical Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
High-pressure membrane technology has demonstrated remarkable efficacy in municipal
wastewater reuse. However, membrane fouling remains a bottleneck hampering its …

Distinct impacts of natural organic matter and colloidal particles on gypsum crystallization

T Cao, J Rolf, Z Wang, C Violet, M Elimelech - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Gypsum scaling via crystallization is a major obstacle limiting the applications of membrane-
based technologies and heat exchangers in engineered systems. Herein, we perform the …

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 …

Selective ion permeation enables reduced combined gypsum-organic fouling of loose nanofiltration membranes

T Wang, H Wang, L Ren, H Zhou, R Dai, Z Wu, Z Wang - Desalination, 2024 - Elsevier
During the long-term operation of NF membranes, the occurrence of combined gypsum-
organic fouling is a significant challenge. While numerous studies have focused on …

Effects of UV/Fe (II)/sulfite pre-treatment on NOM-enhanced Ca2+ scaling during nanofiltration treatment: fouling mitigation, mechanisms, and correlation analysis of …

W Liu, C Zhao, S Zhou, B Liu, X Cheng, Z Xue, T Zhu - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
This study was aimed to evaluate the effects of a pre-treatment involving sulfite (S (IV))
synergistically activated by ultraviolet (UV)/Fe (II) on natural organic matter (NOM)-enhanced …

Fabrication of nanofiltration membrane on MoS2 modified PVDF substrate for excellent permeability, salt rejection, and structural stability

X Wang, Q **ao, C Wu, P Li, S **a - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2021 - Elsevier
A thin-film composite polyamide membrane has been widely implemented in water
desalination. However, the balance between permeability and selectivity by decreasing …

Contrasting mixed scaling patterns and mechanisms of nanofiltration and membrane distillation

L Zheng, Q Wu, M Ulbricht, H Zhong, N Duan… - Water Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Oriented towards the pressing needs for hypersaline wastewater desalination and zero
liquid discharge (ZLD), the contrasting mixed scaling of thermal-driven vacuum membrane …

Antibiotics separation from saline wastewater by nanofiltration membrane based on tannic acid-ferric ions coordination complexes

LF Ren, S Zhang, Z Ma, Y Qiu, D Ying, J Jia, J Shao… - Desalination, 2022 - Elsevier
Excessive discharge of saline antibiotics wastewater into aquatic ecosystem is one crucial
environmental issue facing the world today. Herein, an eco-friendly nanofiltration (NF) …

Effect of adsorption and coagulation pretreatment sequence on ultrafiltration membrane fouling: Process study and targeted prediction

M Chen, J Nan, X Ji, F Wu, X Ye, Z Ge - Desalination, 2022 - Elsevier
A novel combined pretreatment strategy, where the hydrophobicity of feedwater is reduced
and the morphology of flocs is optimized by varying the sequence of powdered activated …

Removal of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances by nanofiltration: Effect of molecular structure and coexisting natural organic matter

C Liu, Y Shen, X Zhao, Z Chen, R Gao, Q Zuo… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2023 - Elsevier
This study investigates the removal efficiency of anionic, cationic, and zwitterionic per-and
polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) by nanofiltration (NF) in the presence of three …