Effects of pharmaceuticals on membrane bioreactor: Review on membrane fouling mechanisms and fouling control strategies

A Sengar, A Vijayanandan - Science of The Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Pharmaceuticals have become contaminants of emerging concern due to their toxicity
towards aquatic life and pseudo persistent nature in the environment. Membrane bioreactor …

Review on carbon-based adsorbents from organic feedstocks for removal of organic contaminants from oil and gas industry process water: Production, adsorption …

DCC da Silva Medeiros, P Chelme-Ayala… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Large amounts of process water with considerable concentrations of recalcitrant organic
contaminants, such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAHs), phenolic compounds (PCs) …

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 …

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 …

Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) reveals the role of microbial fuel cell-ceramic membrane bioreactor (MFC-CMBR): Electricity utilization and membrane …

L Wang, Y Wu, Z You, H Bao, L Zhang, J Wang - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Ceramic membrane has become a major concern due to creasing cost and competitive
efficiency. Microbial fuel cell-ceramic membrane bioreactor (MFC-CMBR) is considered …

Efficient removal of organic compounds from shale gas wastewater by coupled ozonation and moving-bed-biofilm submerged membrane bioreactor

X Liu, P Tang, Y Liu, W **e, C Chen, T Li, Q He… - Bioresource …, 2022 - Elsevier
Shale gas wastewater (SGW) with complex composition and high salinity needs an
economical and efficient method of treatment with the main goal to remove organics. In this …

Adsorption of metals in oil sands process water by a biochar/iron oxide composite: Influence of the composite structure and surface functional groups

J Song, Z Huang, MG El-Din - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2021 - Elsevier
In this work, anaerobic sludge from a wastewater treatment plant was used to prepare a
sludge-based biochar/iron oxide (B-FeO x) adsorbent. The B-FeO x adsorbent was …

New insights into the influence of pre-oxidation on membrane fouling during nanofiltration of brackish water considering inorganic-organic complexation and oxidant …

D Lin, H Zhang, Z Wang, D Xu, G Li, M Ulbricht… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Even though pre-oxidation is usually considered as a promising method to alleviate
membrane fouling, information on performance and inner mechanisms of pre-oxidation …

Removal of selected nitrogenous heterocyclic compounds in biologically pretreated coal gasification wastewater (BPCGW) using the catalytic ozonation process …

H Zhu, Y Han, W Ma, H Han, W Ma - Bioresource technology, 2017 - Elsevier
Three identical anoxic-aerobic membrane bioreactors (MBRs) were operated in parallel for
300 consecutive days for raw (R 1), ozonated (R 2) and catalytic ozonated (R 3) biologically …

Pre-ozonation for the mitigation of reverse osmosis (RO) membrane fouling by biopolymer: the roles of Ca2+ and Mg2+

Z Yin, T Wen, Y Li, A Li, C Long - Water research, 2020 - Elsevier
Despite plenty of literatures focused on the application of pre-ozonation prior to membrane,
it was still unclear about the role of divalent cations (Ca 2+ and Mg 2+) in reverse osmosis …