Fouling in reverse osmosis membranes: monitoring, characterization, mitigation strategies and future directions

MA Ahmed, S Amin, AA Mohamed - Heliyon, 2023 - cell.com
Water scarcity has been a global challenge for many countries over the past decades, and
as a result, reverse osmosis (RO) has emerged as a promising and cost-effective tool for …

Energy consumption and environmental impact assessment of desalination plants and brine disposal strategies

MN Soliman, FZ Guen, SA Ahmed, H Saleem… - Process Safety and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Nowadays, desalination plants are considered as tools to utilize water from different natural
resources such as seawater and brackish water. Globally, the number of desalination plants …

Graphene-based membranes for water and wastewater treatment: a review

P Bhol, S Yadav, A Altaee, M Saxena… - ACS Applied Nano …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Increasing population and industrial growth, combined with climate change, led to global
water problems. This review paper summarizes the next-generation hybrid graphene-based …

Desalination by the forward osmosis: advancement and challenges

N Abounahia, I Ibrar, T Kazwini, A Altaee… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Forward osmosis (FO) has become a promising membrane technology for desalination and
water treatment due to its simplicity, low energy consumption, and low fouling tendency …

Development in forward Osmosis-Membrane distillation hybrid system for wastewater treatment

I Ibrar, S Yadav, O Naji, AA Alanezi, N Ghaffour… - Separation and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Water scarcity is one of the major issues that has put economic growth, societal stability, and
ecosystem balance unstable. Wastewater reuse has been recognised as a viable method for …

Surface modification of thin-film nanocomposite forward osmosis membrane with super-hydrophilic MIL-53 (Al) for doxycycline removal as an emerging contaminant …

S Samsami, MH Sarrafzadeh, A Ahmadi - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2022 - Elsevier
As a contaminant of emerging concern, doxycycline is an antibiotic that has recently drawn
rising attention due to its satisfactory outcomes for the treatment of COVID-19. In this study, a …

Seawater desalination: A review of forward osmosis technique, its challenges, and future prospects

A Aende, J Gardy, A Hassanpour - Processes, 2020 - mdpi.com
Currently over 845 million people are believed to be living under severe water scarcity, and
an estimated 2.8 billion people across the globe are projected to come under serious water …

Surface modification of thin-film composite forward osmosis membranes with polyvinyl alcohol–graphene oxide composite hydrogels for antifouling properties

N Akther, SM Ali, S Phuntsho, H Shon - Desalination, 2020 - Elsevier
In this study, the polyamide (PA) layers of commercial thin-film composite (TFC) forward
osmosis (FO) membranes were coated with glutaraldehyde cross-linked polyvinyl alcohol …

Preparation of fouling resistant and highly perm-selective novel PSf/GO-vanillin nanofiltration membrane for efficient water purification

S Yadav, I Ibrar, AK Samal, A Altaee, S Déon… - Journal of hazardous …, 2022 - Elsevier
To meet the rising global demand for water, it is necessary to develop membranes capable
of efficiently purifying contaminated water sources. Herein, we report a series of novel …

[HTML][HTML] Thin-film nanocomposite (TFN) membrane technologies for the removal of emerging contaminants from wastewater

B Han, JCP Gabriel - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2024 - Elsevier
Thin film nanocomposite (TFN) membranes, consisting of nanoparticles and polyamide
barriers are an efficient separation tool for removal emerging wastes from water. In the last …