Artificial intelligence-incorporated membrane fouling prediction for membrane-based processes in the past 20 years: A critical review

C Niu, X Li, R Dai, Z Wang - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Membrane fouling is one of major obstacles in the application of membrane technologies.
Accurately predicting or simulating membrane fouling behaviours is of great significance to …

Bacterial biofilm and extracellular polymeric substances in the treatment of environmental pollutants: beyond the protective role in survivability

KU Mahto, M Priyadarshanee, DP Samantaray… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2022 - Elsevier
Increased tolerance to toxic pollutants and enhanced degradation capabilities of the
bacterial biofilm is often attributed to the matrix of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) …

Facile synthesis of 2D TiO2@ MXene composite membrane with enhanced separation and antifouling performance

Z Huang, Q Zeng, Y Liu, Y Xu, R Li, H Hong… - Journal of Membrane …, 2021 - Elsevier
While composite membranes with two-dimensional (2D) lamellar materials (eg, graphene
and MXene) have recently attracted increasing attention, fabrication of high-performance 2D …

New methods based on back propagation (BP) and radial basis function (RBF) artificial neural networks (ANNs) for predicting the occurrence of haloketones in tap …

Y Deng, X Zhou, J Shen, G Xiao, H Hong, H Lin… - Science of The Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Haloketones (HKs) is one class of disinfection by-products (DBPs) which is genetically toxic
and mutagenic. Monitoring HKs in drinking water is important for drinking water safety, yet it …

High propensity of membrane fouling and the underlying mechanisms in a membrane bioreactor during occurrence of sludge bulking

M Wu, M Zhang, L Shen, X Wang, D Ying, H Lin, R Li… - Water research, 2023 - Elsevier
While sludge bulking often occurring in activated sludge processes generally leads to
serious membrane fouling in membrane bioreactors (MBR), the underlying causes are still …

Diversified metabolism makes novel Thauera strain highly competitive in low carbon wastewater treatment

T Ren, Y Chi, Y Wang, X Shi, X Jin, P Jin - Water research, 2021 - Elsevier
Thauera, as one of the core members of wastewater biological treatment systems, plays an
important role in the process of nitrogen and phosphorus removal from low-carbon source …

The coupling of persulfate activation and membrane separation for the effective pollutant degradation and membrane fouling alleviation

M Zhou, J Chen, S Yu, B Chen, C Chen, L Shen… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
The membrane fouling is a thorny issue in membrane separation technology, which can
significantly weaken its separation efficiency for wastewater. The coupling of membrane …

Spectroscopic fingerprints profiling the polysaccharide/protein/humic architecture of stratified extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) in activated sludge

J Yu, K Xiao, H Xu, Y Li, Q Xue, W Xue, A Zhang… - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Extracellular polymeric substances (EPS), with a stratified structure including tightly-bound
EPS (TB-EPS), loosely-bound EPS (LB-EPS), and soluble EPS (S-EPS) surrounding the …

Synergistic fouling behaviors and mechanisms of calcium ions and polyaluminum chloride associated with alginate solution in coagulation-ultrafiltration (UF) process

Y Long, G Yu, L Dong, Y Xu, H Lin, Y Deng, X You… - Water research, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Effects of calcium ions and polyaluminum chloride (PACl) on membrane fouling in
coagulation-ultrafiltration (UF) process were investigated in this study. Filtration tests …

A novel in-situ micro-aeration functional membrane with excellent decoloration efficiency and antifouling performance

Y Liu, L Shen, Z Huang, J Liu, Y Xu, R Li… - Journal of Membrane …, 2022 - Elsevier
While membrane technology emerges as one of the promising candidates for printing and
dyeing wastewater treatment, it still suffers problems of “trade-off” effect and membrane …