A review on the applicability of integrated/hybrid membrane processes in water treatment and desalination plants

WL Ang, AW Mohammad, N Hilal, CP Leo - Desalination, 2015 - Elsevier
Conventional processes involved in water treatment, either in water treatment plants or
reverse osmosis desalination plants, have encountered several obstacles that have severely …

Hydraulic backwashing for low-pressure membranes in drinking water treatment: A review

H Chang, H Liang, F Qu, B Liu, H Yu, X Du, G Li… - Journal of Membrane …, 2017 - Elsevier
Conventional drinking water treatment processes have faced several obstacles that are
severely affected by water pollution and shortage, which makes it difficult to produce potable …

[BOOK][B] Natural organic matter in water: Characterization and treatment methods

M Sillanpää - 2014 - books.google.com
Approximately 77 percent of the freshwater used in the United States comes from surface-
water sources and is subject to natural organic matter contamination according to the United …

Membrane-based processes used in municipal wastewater treatment for water reuse: state-of-the-art and performance analysis

J Yang, M Monnot, L Ercolei, P Moulin - Membranes, 2020 - mdpi.com
Wastewater reuse as a sustainable, reliable and energy recovery concept is a promising
approach to alleviate worldwide water scarcity. However, the water reuse market needs to …

Recycled reverse osmosis membrane combined with pre-oxidation for improved arsenic removal from high turbidity waters and retrofit of conventional drinking water …

VR Moreira, YAR Lebron, EC de Paula… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2021 - Elsevier
End-of-life reverse osmosis membranes could be now recycled (UFr) by a low-cost oxidative
treatment producing a membrane with properties similar to ultrafiltration. Its efficiency for …

Natural organic matter removal from drinking water by membrane technology

S Metsämuuronen, M Sillanpää… - Separation & …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Aquatic natural organic matter (NOM) is a heterogeneous mixture of biopolymers and their
degradation products that cause harmful by-products during drinking water production. The …

High turbidity water treatment by ceramic microfiltration membrane: Fouling identification and process optimization

W Park, S Jeong, SJ Im, A Jang - Environmental Technology & Innovation, 2020 - Elsevier
Ceramic membranes have been introduced in various fields; however, research on ceramic
membranes in high-turbidity environments has been rarely performed. In this study, the …

Characteristics of membrane fouling by consecutive chemical cleaning in pressurized ultrafiltration as pre-treatment of seawater desalination

YC Woo, JJ Lee, LD Ti**g, HK Shon, M Yao, HS Kim - Desalination, 2015 - Elsevier
Chemical cleaning of membranes is one of the most important strategies in pressurized
hollow fiber ultrafiltration (UF) as a pre-treatment for seawater desalination. Various physical …

Preparation and characterization of polylactic acid-modified polyvinylidene fluoride hollow fiber membranes with enhanced water flux and antifouling resistance

NS Aseri, WJ Lau, PS Goh, H Hasbullah… - Journal of Water …, 2019 - Elsevier
Although ultrafiltration (UF) membranes have gained considerable attention in water
separation and purification process, most of the materials used for commercial UF …

Non-woven PET fabric reinforced and enhanced the performance of ultrafiltration membranes composed of PVDF blended with PVDF-g-PEGMA for industrial …

S Wang, T Li, C Chen, S Chen, B Liu… - Applied Surface Science, 2018 - Elsevier
Ultrafiltration (UF) membranes composed of poly (vinylidene fluoride)(PVDF) blended with
poly (vinylidene fluoride)-graft-poly (ethylene glycol) methyl ether methacrylate (PVDF-g …