Inorganic scaling caused by precipitation of sparingly soluble salts at supersaturation is a
common but critical issue, limiting the efficiency of membrane-based desalination and brine …

Reverse osmosis (RO) is the most widely used technology in water treatment and
desalination technologies for potable water production. Since its invention, RO has …

Reverse Osmosis (RO) is becoming increasingly popular for seawater desalination and
wastewater reclamation. However, fouling of the membranes adversely impacts the overall …

Reverse osmosis (RO) plays an important role in freshwater production. Mineral scaling is
an inevitable problem in the RO desalination process. Various methods, including the …

Over the past few years, nanomaterials have been gradually developed as scale inhibitors.
In this work, an environmentally friendly and antibacterial sulfur quantum dot scale inhibitor …

Regarding RO-membrane scaling, a major issue of practical significance is the adequacy
and reliability of available methods to assess feed-water scaling propensity, select and …

One of the major problems of seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) process is the formation of
inorganic scales (calcium carbonate, CaCO 3) and calcium sulfate, CaSO 4)) on the …

Membrane fouling is one of the major hurdles in widespread use of seawater reverse
osmosis (SWRO) in desalination industry. There are various factors that affect the inorganic …

Polysuccinimide (PSI), as the precursor of polyaspartic acid (PASP), can easily react with
amino (single bondNH 2) groups under mild conditions. A novel scale inhibitor, designed as …

In this paper, commercially available graphene oxide (GO) was used as nanomaterials to
modify polyamide reverse osmosis (RO) membrane surface. After functionalization, the …