Membrane fouling by emulsified oil: A review

E Tummons, Q Han, HJ Tanudjaja, CA Hejase… - Separation and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Separation of liquid–liquid emulsions is a challenging problem that has gained importance
with the development of unconventional oil resources. Large volumes of water contaminated …

[HTML][HTML] Membrane fouling for produced water treatment: A review study from a process control perspective

KL Jepsen, MV Bram, S Pedersen, Z Yang - Water, 2018 - mdpi.com
The offshore oil and gas industry is experiencing increasing water cuts as the reservoirs
mature. The increase in produced water stresses the currently deployed deoiling …

Improvement in microfiltration process of oily wastewater: A comprehensive review over two decades

AH Behroozi, MR Ataabadi - Journal of Environmental Chemical …, 2021 - Elsevier
Microfiltration (MF) technology has become an emerging and promising separation process
for oily wastewater (OW) pre-treatment owing to its high oil separation efficiency and ease of …

Effect of cross-flow velocity, oil concentration and salinity on the critical flux of an oil-in-water emulsion in microfiltration

HJ Tanudjaja, VV Tarabara, AG Fane… - Journal of Membrane …, 2017 - Elsevier
Microfiltration is an attractive means for treating oily wastewater, especially when the size of
the oil droplets are micrometer-sized since the conventional techniques become deficient. A …

Sustainable management of saline oily wastewater via forward osmosis using aquaporin membrane

S Sahebi, M Sheikhi, B Ramavandi, M Ahmadi… - Process Safety and …, 2020 - Elsevier
The hypothesis that petrochemical oily wastewater containing high amounts of total
dissolved solids (TDS), chemical oxygen demand (COD) and total organic carbon (TOC) can …

Kaolinitic clay-based ceramic microfiltration membrane for oily wastewater treatment: Assessment of coagulant addition

M Sheikhi, M Arzani, HR Mahdavi, T Mohammadi - Ceramics International, 2019 - Elsevier
Performance of inline coagulation-microfiltration (IMF) process for treatment of oily
wastewater using a newly developed kaolinitic clay-Based ceramic membrane was …

Remediation of crude oil contaminated oily wastewater using nanostructured ZnO-decorated ceramic membrane: Membrane fouling and their mitigation using photo …

U Baig, MF Al-Kuhaili, MA Dastageer - Desalination, 2025 - Elsevier
In membrane-based oil water separation, the fouling of oil on the membrane pores due to
the adsorption of oily feed components (crude oil) is a major disadvantage. In order to …

Amino-functionalization of tungsten oxide nanoparticles for stable decoration in the active layer of alumina-supported inorganic-organic hybrid membrane with super …

U Baig, A Waheed, MA Dastageer… - Colloids and Surfaces A …, 2024 - Elsevier
The ceramic membrane was hybridized with an amino-functionalized inorganic metal oxide
and organic polymer to achieve the optimal oil and water surface wettability and photo …

Solar-light active tungsten oxide coated ceramic membrane with unique surface wettability fabricated by RF magnetron sputtering: Remediation of oily wastewater and …

U Baig, MF Al-Kuhaili, MA Dastageer - Sustainable Materials and …, 2024 - Elsevier
A thin film monoclinic WO 3 was coated on porous alumina ceramic membrane by RF
magnetron sputtering (RFMS), and used as a self-cleaning filtering medium for the …

Estimation of liquid entry pressure in hydrophobic membranes using CFD tools

P Yazgan-Birgi, MIH Ali, HA Arafat - Journal of Membrane Science, 2018 - Elsevier
A two-dimensional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model was developed and validated
to estimate the liquid entry pressure (LEP) of hydrophobic membranes used for membrane …