Fouling, performance and cost analysis of membrane-based water desalination technologies: A critical review

LN Nthunya, MF Bopape, OT Mahlangu… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
While water is a key resource required to sustain life, freshwater sources and aquifers are
being depleted at an alarming rate. As a mitigation strategy, saline water desalination is …

Electrodialysis for water desalination: A critical assessment of recent developments on process fundamentals, models and applications

A Campione, L Gurreri, M Ciofalo, G Micale… - Desalination, 2018 - Elsevier
The need for unconventional sources of fresh water is pushing a fast development of
desalination technologies, which proved to be able to face and solve the problem of water …

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 …

Roles and performance enhancement of feed spacer in spiral wound membrane modules for water treatment: A 20-year review on research evolvement

W Lin, Y Zhang, D Li, X Wang, X Huang - Water research, 2021 - Elsevier
Membrane technologies have been widely applied in water treatment, wastewater
reclamation and seawater desalination. Feed spacer present in spiral wound membrane …

Noninvasive monitoring of fouling in membrane processes by optical coherence tomography: a review

KT Huisman, B Blankert, H Horn, M Wagner… - Journal of Membrane …, 2024 - Elsevier
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) has emerged as a powerful noninvasive technique for
monitoring fouling in membrane filtration systems for water and wastewater treatment and …

3D printed feed spacers based on triply periodic minimal surfaces for flux enhancement and biofouling mitigation in RO and UF

N Sreedhar, N Thomas, O Al-Ketan, R Rowshan… - Desalination, 2018 - Elsevier
In this proof of concept study, 3D printed feed spacers with complex geometries based on
triply periodic minimal surfaces (TPMS) were designed and tested in reverse osmosis (RO) …

Fouling control and modeling in reverse osmosis for seawater desalination: A review

N Najid, JN Hakizimana, S Kouzbour, B Gourich… - Computers & Chemical …, 2022 - Elsevier
The development of the antifouling Reverse Osmosis (RO) membranes requires modeling
and simulation as an essential tool alongside the progress of RO membrane technologies …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing the potential and limitations of membrane-based technologies for the treatment of oilfield produced water

AE Mansi, SM El-Marsafy, Y Elhenawy… - Alexandria Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this study, the recent advances in standalone membrane technologies were investigated
for produced water treatment and reclamation. The effect of operating parameters (ie …

The evolution of feed spacer role in membrane applications for desalination and water treatment: A critical review and future perspective

N Sreedhar, N Thomas, N Ghaffour, HA Arafat - Desalination, 2023 - Elsevier
The membrane research community has witnessed a significant research growth on feed
spacers since 2010, both in quantity and scope. Increasingly novel spacer geometries and …

A review of efforts to reduce membrane fouling by control of feed spacer characteristics

HS Abid, DJ Johnson, R Hashaikeh, N Hilal - Desalination, 2017 - Elsevier
A major problem for the operation of membrane based water treatment systems is fouling of
the membrane surface. Within industrial modules, such as spiral wound modules, feed …