Application of the membrane fouling simulator to determine biofouling potential of antiscalants in membrane filtration

Duiven, Janneke; Rietman, B.M.; Ven, Wilbert van de

doi:10.2166/aqua.2010.041

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“…The MFS is proven to be able to mimic polymeric membrane conditions and to measure biofouling in the feed spacer of RO-membranes [7,10,12,31,30]. However, since no permeate is produced with the MFS, particulate fouling, organic fouling, inorganic fouling (i.e.…”

Section: Biofouling Potential In the Ro Membranementioning

confidence: 99%

Direct water reclamation from sewage using ceramic tight ultra- and nanofiltration

Kramer

Shang

Heijman

et al. 2015

Separation and Purification Technology

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Section: Biofouling Potential In the Ro Membranementioning

confidence: 99%

Direct water reclamation from sewage using ceramic tight ultra- and nanofiltration

Kramer

Shang

Heijman

et al. 2015

Separation and Purification Technology

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“…Such device should be representative for conventionally used membrane modules, thus involving the used materials (properties and structure) such as membrane and spacer, the height of the flow channels and hydraulics. The membrane fouling simulator (MFS) was introduced in 2006 [4] and since then many articles have appeared on various research aspects of biofilm characterization [2,3,[27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36], biofouling control [5,[37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49], and strategies for early warning of biofouling [50][51][52][53][54][55] applying the developed MFS.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The MFS units can be used to rapidly evaluate and select anti-scalants, which do not contribute to biofilm development [41,79].…”

Section: Impact Of Anti-scalant Dosagementioning

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The membrane fouling simulator: development, application, and early-warning of biofouling in RO treatment

Kim¹,

Nava-Ocampo²,

Loosdrecht³

et al. 2018

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Kruithof, Joop C.; Vrouwenvelder, Johannes S. Citation Kim LH, Nava-Ocampo, M, van Loosdrecht MCM, Kruithof JC, Vrouwenvelder JS (2018) The membrane fouling simulator: development, application, and early-warning of biofouling in RO treatment. DESALINATION AND WATER TREATMENT 126: 1-23. Available: http://dx. a b s t r a c tThe growing demand for fresh water has resulted in increasing use of reverse osmosis (RO) membrane systems for seawater desalination. A major operational problem of RO membrane filtration systems is biofouling -biomass growth causing an unacceptable membrane performance decline. Biofouling reduces the produced water quantity and quality and increases costs. The need for fouling remediation is mainly derived from destructive trial-and-error research with practical membrane modules. Therefore, a clear need existed for the development of a small-sized membrane fouling simulator (MFS) for systematic, low-cost studies. Since the introduction of the MFS in 2006, many articles have appeared which are evaluated in this review. The review describes (i) the location of biofouling in full-scale installations, (ii) development of MFS, (iii) characterization, reproducibility and representativeness of fouling development in the MFS, (iv) applications such as assessing the impact of anti-scalant or biocide dosage, phosphate limitation, feed spacer geometry and linear flow velocity and (v) early warning for biofouling. MFS studies have increased the understanding of biofouling and enabled improved practical membrane performance such as selection of dosed chemicals and feed spacer design. Future MFS studies are anticipated to enable the development of advanced biofouling control strategies.

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“…Duiven et al (2010) show in their paper that the dosing of antiscalants can significantly contribute to biofouling. They introduce the Membrane Fouling Simulator as a method to determine the biofouling potential of different antiscalants.…”

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Panglisch

Kimura

Amy

2010

Journal of Water Supply: Research and Technology-Aqua

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several techniques to conduct detailed investigations of fouling layers arising on four different NF membranes by treating two surface waters that differed substantially in major properties. Ion transport mechanisms in NF were systematically investigated by Park et al. (2010) who pointed out the importance of the influence of nano-coUoids. Application of model calculations to membrane processes is still a challenge but promising. Two papers dealt with this topic, both of which were carried out with submerged MF processes. Li et al. (2oiofc) used computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to estimate the shear stress on the membrane while Erdei et al. (2010) employed an artiflcial neural network (ANN) to predict permeate quality and membrane fouling. In summary we are highly pleased to deliver a Theme Issue assembled with several high quality research papers covering a wide spectrum of different topics related to the production of potable water by membranes. We appreciate the contributions by the authors, reviewers, and editorial staff of IWA to this project and we would be pleased to receive comments and suggestions you may have about this Theme Issue.

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Application of the membrane fouling simulator to determine biofouling potential of antiscalants in membrane filtration

Cited by 8 publications

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Direct water reclamation from sewage using ceramic tight ultra- and nanofiltration

Direct water reclamation from sewage using ceramic tight ultra- and nanofiltration

The membrane fouling simulator: development, application, and early-warning of biofouling in RO treatment

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