Membrane fouling during water or wastewater treatments: Current research updated
Journal
Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers
Journal Volume
94
Pages
88-96
Date Issued
2019
Author(s)
Abstract
Membrane fouling is the single most influential factor that limits the membrane process performance in long-term operation. This mini-review reviewed the currently available review papers on membrane fouling studies and summarized the research trends from the conclusions highlighted by these reviews. On foulant aspect, the origin of novel foulants and the biofoulants are widely studied. On characterization and control strategy aspect, novel characterization tools and low-fouling membranes are to be proposed and tested, and the conventional and novel control strategies are under development. On mechanism part, the use of extended blocking models and the extended interfacial interaction models on interpreting fouling behavior is a research focus. ? 2017 Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers
Subjects
Biofouling
Fouling mitigation
Low-fouling membranes
Mechanisms
Type
journal article