Micro and nanobubbles in water and wastewater treatment: A state-of-the-art review

I Levitsky, D Tavor, V Gitis - Journal of Water Process Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Air-water micronanobubbles MNBs can be produced by four different methods and be used
to improve (1) oxygen transfer in microbiological processes with high consumption rate,(2) …

Recent advances for understanding the role of nanobubbles in particles flotation

F Zhang, L Sun, H Yang, X Gui, H Schönherr… - Advances in Colloid and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Traditional froth flotation is the primary method for the separation and upgrading of fine
mineral particles. However, it is still difficult for micro-fine and low-quality minerals to …

Fouling prevention, preparing for re-use and membrane recycling. Towards circular economy in RO desalination

J Landaburu-Aguirre, R García-Pacheco, S Molina… - Desalination, 2016 - Elsevier
Reverse osmosis (RO) is the most employed technology for water desalination. Energy
consumption and membrane fouling represent some of the major concerns in membrane …

A review of CFD modelling studies on the flotation process

G Wang, L Ge, S Mitra, GM Evans, JB Joshi… - Minerals Engineering, 2018 - Elsevier
A comprehensive review of the published literature regarding the computational fluid
dynamics (CFD) modelling of the flotation process is presented. The detailed principles …

Microplastics in sea ice: A fingerprint of bubble flotation

I Chubarenko, I Bocherikova, E Esiukova… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Sea ice is heavily contaminated with microplastics (MPs), with the repeatedly confirmed
increased number of larger-sized particles, deficit of fibers, and prevalence of materials …

A perspective on flotation: A review

EN Peleka, GP Gallios, KA Matis - Journal of Chemical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The problem of fine particles processing has become important both in mineral processing
and also for water and wastewater engineering. It is accepted, on the other hand, that the …

[HTML][HTML] Simultaneous monitoring of flow patterns, and bubble, and plastics micro-particle characteristics in Dissolved Air Flotation (DAF)

B Swart, YMJ Chew, J Wenk - Chemical Engineering Research and Design, 2023 - Elsevier
Dissolved air flotation (DAF) is an important water treatment process for removing
suspended solids. Understanding the characteristic size and spatial distribution of both …

[HTML][HTML] Dissolved air flotation: a review from the perspective of system parameters and uses in wastewater treatment

JA Muñoz-Alegría, E Muñoz-España… - TecnoLógicas, 2021 - scielo.org.co
The current issues of climate change and high freshwater demand worldwide have
promoted the implementation of wastewater reclamation technologies. This study aims to …

Trends in modeling, design, and optimization of multiphase systems in minerals processing

LA Cisternas, FA Lucay, YL Botero - Minerals, 2019 - mdpi.com
Multiphase systems are important in minerals processing, and usually include solid–solid
and solid–fluid systems, such as in wet grinding, flotation, dewatering, and magnetic …

Effect of salinity on air dissolution, size distribution of microbubbles, and hydrodynamics of a dissolved air flotation (DAF) system

VR Fanaie, M Khiadani - Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and …, 2020 - Elsevier
In the present study, air dissolution, size distribution and hydrodynamics of microbubbles in
a dissolved air flotation system were experimentally investigated. The amount of dissolved …