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Membranes, Volume 10, Issue 2

February 2020 - 14 articles

Cover Story: Membrane fouling is the bottleneck that limits the wide application of membrane processes. Herein, an electroactive polyether sulfone (PES) membrane with excellent anti-fouling capability was designed. Incorporating electrochemistry, the proposed design offers the prospect of both improving water flux and enhancing foulant rejection efficiency. Three types of model foulants were rationally selected (i.e., bovine serum albumin (BSA) and sodium alginate (SA) as non-migratory foulants, yeast as proliferative foulant, and emulsified oil as spreadable foulant). Results suggest that electrochemical assistance endows the membrane with strong electrostatic repulsive properties, which keeps foulants away from the membrane surface. A low electrical field was also effective in mitigating membrane fouling caused by a cocktail of various foulants. View this paper
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Articles (14)

  • Review
  • Open Access
119 Citations
21,220 Views
36 Pages

24 February 2020

Polymeric membrane is a proven technology for water purification and wastewater treatment. The membrane is also commercialized for gas separation, mainly for carbon dioxide removal and hydrogen recovery. Characterization techniques are excellent tool...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,950 Views
18 Pages

Visible-Light Active Photocatalytic Dual Layer Hollow Fiber (DLHF) Membrane and Its Potential in Mitigating the Detrimental Effects of Bisphenol A in Water

  • Roziana Kamaludin,
  • Zatilfarihiah Rasdi,
  • Mohd Hafiz Dzarfan Othman,
  • Siti Hamimah Sheikh Abdul Kadir,
  • Noor Shafina Mohd Nor,
  • Jesmine Khan,
  • Wan Nor I’zzah Wan Mohamad Zain,
  • Ahmad Fauzi Ismail,
  • Mukhlis A Rahman and
  • Juhana Jaafar

21 February 2020

The presence of bisphenol A (BPA) in various water sources has potentially led to numerous adverse effects in human such as increased in blood pressure and derangement in liver function. Thus, a reliable treatment for the removing BPA is highly requi...

  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,154 Views
9 Pages

Creating Supported Plasma Membrane Bilayers Using Acoustic Pressure

  • Erdinc Sezgin,
  • Dario Carugo,
  • Ilya Levental,
  • Eleanor Stride and
  • Christian Eggeling

18 February 2020

Model membrane systems are essential tools for the study of biological processes in a simplified setting to reveal the underlying physicochemical principles. As cell-derived membrane systems, giant plasma membrane vesicles (GPMVs) constitute an inter...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
6,290 Views
14 Pages

18 February 2020

Sulfonated polyphenylsulfone (SPPSU) with a high ion exchange capacity (IEC) was synthesized using commercially available polyphenylsulfone (PPSU), and a large-area (16 × 18 cm2) crosslinked sulfonated polyphenylsulfone (CSPPSU) membrane was pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,997 Views
16 Pages

14 February 2020

Lignin is one of the three main components of lignocellulosic biomass and must be considered a raw material with attractive applications from an economic and ecological point of view. Therefore, biorefineries must have in mind the most adequate proce...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,097 Views
16 Pages

11 February 2020

For advanced water treatment, function of microfiltration (MF), adsorption, photo-oxidation, humic acid (HA), and polypropylene (PP) particles on membrane fouling and decay effectiveness were investigated in an integrated water treatment, of multicha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,289 Views
11 Pages

Permeation Properties of Ions through Inorganic Silica-Based Membranes

  • Junko Yoshiura,
  • Katsunori Ishii,
  • Yuta Saito,
  • Takaya Nagataki,
  • Yuhei Nagataki,
  • Ayumi Ikeda and
  • Mikihiro Nomura

8 February 2020

The development of inorganic membranes has mainly found applicability in liquid separation technologies. However, only a few reports cite the permeation and separation of liquids through inorganic nanofiltration membranes compared with the more popul...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,983 Views
11 Pages

Control of Sequential MTO Reactions through an MFI-Type Zeolite Membrane Contactor

  • Shusei Tanizume,
  • Toshihiro Yoshimura,
  • Katsunori Ishii and
  • Mikihiro Nomura

7 February 2020

A membrane for controlling methanol-to-olefin (MTO) reactions was developed, which featured an MFI-type zeolite membrane (Si/Al = 25) that was synthesized on a porous α-alumina substrate using a secondary growth method. Here, the H2/SF6 permeance rat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,908 Views
21 Pages

6 February 2020

This paper deals with the efficiency of capillary modules without an external housing, which were used as submerged modules in the membrane distillation process. The commercial hydrophobic capillary membranes fabricated for the microfiltration proces...

  • Review
  • Open Access
316 Citations
23,127 Views
33 Pages

4 February 2020

Compared with the traditional activated sludge process, a membrane bioreactor (MBR) has many advantages, such as good effluent quality, small floor space, low residual sludge yield and easy automatic control. It has a promising prospect in wastewater...

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