Forward osmosis is an emerging osmosis-driven membrane process, which has benefits of
low energy consumption, low operational pressure, easy equipment, and low fouling. This …

While water is a key resource required to sustain life, freshwater sources and aquifers are
being depleted at an alarming rate. As a mitigation strategy, saline water desalination is …

The utilization of osmosis for engineered applications sparked off various emerging
technologies relying on osmotically driven membrane processes (ODMPs). Represented by …

Reverse osmosis is becoming popular for the purification of water resources eg sea and
brackish water. However, one of the major limitations in efficient operation are the fouling of …

Osmotic membrane bioreactor (OMBR) is an emerging technology integrating a forward
osmosis (FO) process into a membrane bioreactor (MBR). This technology has been gaining …

Interest in forward osmosis (FO) research has rapidly increased in the last decade due to
problems of water and energy scarcity. FO processes have been used in many applications …

With decades of developments, RO desalination has evolved into a mature technology with
excellent performance to meet emergent global freshwater needs. Nevertheless, the …

This work investigates the use of a silver-based metal–organic framework (MOF) for
mitigating biofouling in forward-osmosis thin-film composite (TFC) membranes. This is the …

Forward osmosis (FO) is a low-energy treatment process driven by osmosis to induce the
separation of water from dissolved solutes/foulants through the membrane in hydraulic …

In this study, various cleaning methods are investigated to effectively control membrane
fouling (ie, organic fouling, colloidal fouling and scaling) in forward osmosis (FO). Simple …