A review on membrane fouling prediction using artificial neural networks (ANNs)

WH Abuwatfa, N AlSawaftah, N Darwish, WG Pitt… - Membranes, 2023 - mdpi.com
Membrane fouling is a major hurdle to effective pressure-driven membrane processes, such
as microfiltration (MF), ultrafiltration (UF), nanofiltration (NF), and reverse osmosis (RO) …

Comprehensive insights into the impact of pretreatment on anaerobic digestion of waste active sludge from perspectives of organic matter composition …

Y Chen, Q Ping, D Li, X Dai, Y Li - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Although various pretreatments have been applied to promote the anaerobic digestion of
waste active sludge (WAS), the mechanisms regarding the impact of pretreatment on …

A unified thermodynamic mechanism underlying fouling behaviors of soluble microbial products (SMPs) in a membrane bioreactor

J Teng, M Zhang, KT Leung, J Chen, H Hong, H Lin… - Water research, 2019 - Elsevier
Soluble microbial products (SMPs) are the predominate foulants determining fouling extent
in membrane bioreactors (MBRs). However, exact mechanism underlying their typical …

Quantification of interfacial interaction related with adhesive membrane fouling by genetic algorithm back propagation (GABP) neural network

B Li, L Shen, Y Zhao, W Yu, H Lin, C Chen, Y Li… - Journal of Colloid and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Since adhesive membrane fouling is critically determined by the interfacial interaction
between a foulant and a rough membrane surface, efficient quantification of the interfacial …

Prediction of interfacial interactions related with membrane fouling in a membrane bioreactor based on radial basis function artificial neural network (ANN)

Z Zhao, Y Lou, Y Chen, H Lin, R Li, G Yu - Bioresource technology, 2019 - Elsevier
It is of great importance to propose effective methods to quantify interfacial interaction since
it directly determines foulant adhesion and membrane fouling process in membrane …

Quantification of interfacial energies associated with membrane fouling in a membrane bioreactor by using BP and GRNN artificial neural networks

Y Chen, L Shen, R Li, X Xu, H Hong, H Lin… - Journal of colloid and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Interfacial energy between sludge foulants and rough membrane surface critically
determines adhesive fouling in membrane bioreactors (MBRs). As a current available …

Novel insights into membrane fouling in a membrane bioreactor: Elucidating interfacial interactions with real membrane surface

J Teng, L Shen, Y He, BQ Liao, G Wu, H Lin - Chemosphere, 2018 - Elsevier
While governing adhesion/deposition of various foulants on membrane surface and
membrane fouling in membrane bioreactors (MBRs), interfacial interactions with real …

Electric field endowing the conductive polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF)-graphene oxide (GO)‑nickel (Ni) membrane with high-efficient performance for dye wastewater …

Y Zhao, W Yu, R Li, Y Xu, Y Liu, T Sun, L Shen… - Applied Surface …, 2019 - Elsevier
Due to potential toxicity of the dyes and their visibility even at the very low concentration,
treatment of dye wastewater has been a matter of considerable interest. Membrane …

Mechanism analyses of high specific filtration resistance of gel and roles of gel elasticity related with membrane fouling in a membrane bioreactor

J Teng, L Shen, G Yu, F Wang, F Li, X Zhou, Y He… - Bioresource …, 2018 - Elsevier
In this study, mechanisms and roles of gel elasticity in extremely high specific filtration
resistance (SFR) were investigated. It was found that, as compared with cake layer in a …

The extracellular polysaccharide determine the physico-chemical surface properties of Microcystis

H Yang, D Wu, H Li, C Hu - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Microcystis possesses the capacity to form colonies and blooms in lakes and reservoirs
worldwide, causing significant ecological challenges in aquatic ecosystems. However, little …