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 …

[HTML][HTML] Oil-in-water emulsion separation: Fouling of alumina membranes with and without a silicon carbide deposition in constant flux filtration mode

M Chen, SGJ Heijman, MWJ Luiten-Olieman… - Water research, 2022 - Elsevier
Ceramic membranes have drawn increasing attention in oily wastewater treatment as an
alternative to their traditional polymeric counterparts, yet persistent membrane fouling is still …

Electro-enhanced separation of microsized oil-in-water emulsions via metallic membranes: performance and mechanistic insights

Y Shi, Q Zheng, L Ding, F Yang, W Jin… - Environmental …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Conventional separation membranes suffer from evitable fouling and flux decrease for water
treatment applications. Herein, a novel protocol of electro-enhanced membrane separation …

State-of-the-art developments in fabricating ceramic membranes with low energy consumption

D Zou, Y Fan - Ceramics International, 2021 - Elsevier
Ceramic membranes are especially beneficial for treating industrial wastewater due to their
satisfactory bending strength, high chemical resistance, and excellent thermal stability …

Waste recycling of coal fly ash for design of highly porous whisker-structured mullite ceramic membranes

M Fu, J Liu, X Dong, L Zhu, Y Dong… - Journal of the European …, 2019 - Elsevier
Coal fly ash, a solid state waste massively produced from coal combustion, is considered to
be highly hazardous to the environment due to its persistently toxic trace elements. High …

Spider silk bioinspired superhydrophilic nanofibrous membrane for efficient oil/water separation of nanoemulsions

J Zhang, X Huang, Y Xiong, W Zheng, W Liu… - Separation and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Membrane separation has been acknowledged as an effective strategy to treat oily
emulsions based on size-sieving. For separating nanoemulsions, smaller membrane pores …

Process intensification through waste fly ash conversion and application as ceramic membranes: A review

KP Goswami, K Pakshirajan, G Pugazhenthi - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Improper disposal of huge quantities of fly ash generated by thermal power plants and few
other industries contributes to both air and water pollution, and therefore, recent …

Engineering a nanocomposite interlayer for a novel ceramic-based forward osmosis membrane with enhanced performance

M Zhang, W Jin, F Yang, M Duke, Y Dong… - … science & technology, 2020 - ACS Publications
Rational design of a high-performance defect-free polyamide (PA) layer on a robust ceramic
substrate is challenging for forward osmosis (FO) water treatment applications. In this study …

Development of highly porous mullite whisker ceramic membranes for oil-in-water separation and resource utilization of coal gangue

M Liu, Z Zhu, Z Zhang, Y Chu, B Yuan, Z Wei - Separation and Purification …, 2020 - Elsevier
To realize the recycling of coal gangue and obtain high value-added products, highly porous
mullite whisker ceramic microfiltration membranes for the treatment of emulsified oily …

Tunable nanostructured stainless-steel coating for high-selective and high-permeable separation membranes for oil/water emulsions

YJ Yeh, JP Chu, JD You, TH Chang, JR Liou… - NPJ Clean …, 2023 - nature.com
This paper demonstrates a stainless-steel (SS) nano-pyramid structure (diameter of~ 20–50
nm and pore size of 156.1 nm) sputter-coated on mixed cellulose ester (MCE) membrane for …