Membrane bioreactor (MBR) technology for wastewater treatment and reclamation: membrane fouling

OT Iorhemen, RA Hamza, JH Tay - Membranes, 2016 - mdpi.com
The membrane bioreactor (MBR) has emerged as an efficient compact technology for
municipal and industrial wastewater treatment. The major drawback impeding wider …

Membrane fouling in membrane bioreactors—Characterisation, contradictions, cause and cures

A Drews - Journal of membrane science, 2010 - Elsevier
Despite more than a decade of worldwide research on membrane fouling in membrane
bioreactors (MBRs), many questions still remain unanswered. In the light of the complexity of …

Dynamic scouring of multifunctional granular material enhances filtration performance in membrane bioreactor: mechanism and modeling

W Zhang, W Liang, Z Zhang - Journal of Membrane Science, 2022 - Elsevier
The granular material (GM) is able to effectively improve the membrane fouling control in
membrane bioreactor (MBR) by dynamic scouring, adsorption behavior and enzymatic …

Aerobic granular sludge (AGS) scouring to mitigate membrane fouling: performance, hydrodynamic mechanism and contribution quantification model

W Zhang, W Liang, Z Zhang, T Hao - Water Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Aerobic granular sludge (AGS) has been proven to have a low fouling potential in
membrane bioreactor (MBR). Nevertheless, AGS scouring effect on mitigating membrane …

Membrane fouling in aerobic granular sludge (AGS)-membrane bioreactor (MBR): effect of AGS size

W Zhang, F Jiang - Water Research, 2019 - Elsevier
The main goal of the current study was to investigate the membrane fouling mechanism of
aerobic granular sludge (AGS) with various AGS sizes. In this regard, AGSs were sieved into …

Aerobic granular sludge: recent advances

SS Adav, DJ Lee, KY Show, JH Tay - Biotechnology advances, 2008 - Elsevier
Aerobic granulation, a novel environmental biotechnological process, was increasingly
drawing interest of researchers engaging in work in the area of biological wastewater …

A review of aerobic granular sludge (AGS) treating recalcitrant wastewater: Refractory organics removal mechanism, application and prospect

F Cai, L Lei, Y Li, Y Chen - Science of the Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Recent years have witnessed the rapid development of polluting industries as well as
enormous production of recalcitrant wastewater containing toxic and refractory compounds …

Formation, application, and storage-reactivation of aerobic granular sludge: a review

C Wan, L Fu, Z Li, X Liu, L Lin, C Wu - Journal of Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
It was an important discovery in wastewater treatment that the microorganisms in the
traditional activated sludge can form aerobic granular sludge (AGS) by self-aggregation …

Membrane fouling control in membrane bioreactors (MBRs) using granular materials

OT Iorhemen, RA Hamza, JH Tay - Bioresource technology, 2017 - Elsevier
Membrane fouling is considered the major limitation of membrane bioreactors (MBRs). This
paper provides an overview on fouling mitigation in MBRs using granular materials …

Aerobic granular sludge membrane bioreactor (AGMBR): Extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) analysis

OT Iorhemen, RA Hamza, MS Zaghloul, JH Tay - Water research, 2019 - Elsevier
Aerobic granular sludge membrane bioreactor (AGMBR) has emerged with strong potential
to overcome membrane fouling. There have been no extensive studies on extracellular …