Membrane cleaning in membrane bioreactors: A review

Z Wang, J Ma, CY Tang, K Kimura, Q Wang… - Journal of membrane …, 2014 - Elsevier
Membrane bioreactors (MBRs) have been widely used in wastewater treatment and
reclamation. Membrane cleaning is an essential part during the operation of MBRs since …

Recent advances in membrane bioreactors (MBRs): membrane fouling and membrane material

F Meng, SR Chae, A Drews, M Kraume, HS Shin… - Water research, 2009 - Elsevier
Membrane bioreactors (MBRs) have been actively employed for municipal and industrial
wastewater treatments. So far, membrane fouling and the high cost of membranes are main …

Membrane fouling in membrane bioreactors—Characterisation, contradictions, cause and cures

A Drews - Journal of membrane science, 2010 - Elsevier
Despite more than a decade of worldwide research on membrane fouling in membrane
bioreactors (MBRs), many questions still remain unanswered. In the light of the complexity of …

Effects of pharmaceuticals on membrane bioreactor: Review on membrane fouling mechanisms and fouling control strategies

A Sengar, A Vijayanandan - Science of The Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Pharmaceuticals have become contaminants of emerging concern due to their toxicity
towards aquatic life and pseudo persistent nature in the environment. Membrane bioreactor …

Advanced methanogenic performance and fouling mechanism investigation of a high-solid anaerobic membrane bioreactor (AnMBR) for the co-digestion of food …

H Cheng, Y Li, G Guo, T Zhang, Y Qin, T Hao, YY Li - Water research, 2020 - Elsevier
Disposal of the increasingly huge amounts of sewage sludge (SeS) has become an
impending problem worldwide. To solve this problem, a high-solid anaerobic membrane …

Removal of trace organics by anaerobic membrane bioreactors

VM Monsalvo, JA McDonald, SJ Khan, P Le-Clech - Water research, 2014 - Elsevier
The biological removal of 38 trace organics (pharmaceuticals, endocrine disruptors,
personal care products and pesticides) was studied in an anaerobic membrane bioreactor …

Removal of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and antibiotic resistance genes affected by varying degrees of fouling on anaerobic microfiltration membranes

H Cheng, PY Hong - Environmental science & technology, 2017 - ACS Publications
An anaerobic membrane bioreactor was retrofitted with polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF)
microfiltration membrane units, each of which was fouled to a different extent. The …

Efficacy of relaxation, backflushing, chemical cleaning and clogging removal for an immersed hollow fibre membrane bioreactor

T Zsirai, P Buzatu, P Aerts, S Judd - Water research, 2012 - Elsevier
A pilot-scale hollow fibre immersed MBR, challenged with real municipal wastewater, was
studied and operated under conditions identical to those prevailing at full-scale to assess …

Sulfur-based autotrophic denitrification of drinking water using a membrane bioreactor

E Sahinkaya, A Yurtsever, Ö Aktaş, D Ucar… - Chemical Engineering …, 2015 - Elsevier
Sulfur-oxidizing autotrophic denitrification process has drawn significant attention due to its
high efficiency, elimination of carbon requirement and the effluent contamination by organic …

The effect of amino functionalized and polyethylene glycol grafted nanodiamond on anti-biofouling properties of cellulose acetate membrane in membrane bioreactor …

H Etemadi, R Yegani, M Seyfollahi - Separation and Purification …, 2017 - Elsevier
In this work, cellulose acetate (CA) nanocomposite membranes were prepared by
embedding amino functionalized nanodiamond (ND-NH 2) as well as polyethylene glycol …