Membrane processes

Abstract

This literature review provides a review for publications in 2018 and 2019 and includes information membrane processes findings for municipal and industrial applications. This review is a subsection of the annual Water Environment Federation literature review for Treatment Systems section. The following topics are covered in this literature review: industrial wastewater and membrane. Bioreactor (MBR) configuration, membrane fouling, design, reuse, nutrient removal, operation, anaerobic membrane systems, microconstituents removal, membrane technology advances, and modeling. Other subsections of the Treatment Systems section that might relate to this literature review include the following: Biological Fixed-Film Systems, Activated Sludge, and Other Aerobic Suspended Culture Processes, Anaerobic Processes, and Water Reclamation and Reuse. This publication might also have related information on membrane processes: Industrial Wastes, Hazardous Wastes, and Fate and Effects of Pollutants.

Industrial Wastewater Treatment Technologies For Reuse, Recycle, And Recovery: Advantages, Disadvantages, And Gaps.

“…A complete list of advantages, disadvantages, and gaps to overcome in the industry for each biological alternative is presented in Table 3. For technical descriptions, the cited texts are suggested (Arabi et al, 2020;Hamedi et In the same way as adsorption technologies, biological processes such as Conventional Activated Sludge (CAS), Membrane Bioreactor (MBR), and Biological Nutrient Recovery, have securely established themselves in terms of commercial use and technological maturity, indicating their wide acceptability in the industry (Figure 8). This, in comparison to mentioned processes namely membrane separation, AO processes, and coagulation that are considered technologically mature to a lesser extent and require further development for increasing their use in the industry, but expected an upward rise in the use because of the intensi cation of refractory pollutants (Ranade & Bhandari, 2014b).…”

Water Effect on Peroxyoxalate Kinetics and Mechanism for Oxalic Esters with Distinct Reactivities

“…Besides, the peroxyoxalate system can be applied in different fields of pharmacology and diagnosis. Since malignant cells produce increased amounts of hydrogen peroxide, formulations based on oxalates can be used to show the foci of tumor growth and other inflammatory processes (10–13). A wide variety of organic compounds can be determined through the peroxyoxalate system, including cholesterol, glucose, lactose, bilirubin, oxalate, formaldehyde, formic acid, L‐amino acid, polyamines and acetylcholine (14–17).…”

Experimental study of a reverse osmosis pilot plant for reuse of refinery wastewater

“…Overall, membrane processes are currently being widely studied for industrial water treatment in many contexts, such as mining, 17 agriculture, food and beverage industries, textile industry, leachate treatment plants, power plants, refineries, and various types of plants in the oil and gas sectors. 1,18,19 In this context, the literature about membrane processes for oily wastewater treatment is contradictory. On the one hand, several papers have demonstrated that HCs cause membrane fouling [20][21][22][23][24] and, thus, severely reduce performance.…”

“…The reported results underline a good rejection of pollutants, but problems of fouling and deterioration of the membranes were encountered due to the interaction with organic components. In further works, 18,26 membrane applications for refinery wastewater treatment are reviewed, considering microfiltration, ultrafiltration (UF), and RO, and highlighting the huge potential of membrane technologies for water treatment in the petroleum industry. 26 Twelve refineries worldwide are listed, all of which implement water reuse based on membrane processes, mainly RO.…”