CESE-2020: Application of Membrane Bioreactors in Treating Emerging and Persistent Pollutants

A special issue of Membranes (ISSN 2077-0375).

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2. Water: Effective Technologies and Tools (WETT) Research Centre, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia
Interests: water (treatment, distribution, modeling); wastewater (MBR, membranes in agriculture, aquaculture); saltwater intrusion; resource recovery (mine tailing ponds, dye and salt from textile effluent); novel technologies (forward osmosis, membrane distillation)
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College of Environment and Safety Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology (QUST), Qingdao 266042, China
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2. School of Engineering, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, WA 6027, Australia
Interests: water and wastewater (treatment, membrane bioreactor, recirculating aquaculture systems, application of membranes in agriculture); resource recovery (metal recovery from RO concentrate, mine tailing ponds, recovery of dye and salt from textile effluent); novel technology (nanotechnology, forward osmosis, membrane distillation)
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Dear Colleagues,

Membrane Bioreactors (MBRs) are ideal treatment solutions for treating emerging and persistent pollutants from various wastewater streams.

This special issue will be focusing on bringing their performances in treating those pollutants in one place to create an excellent reference point. Review articles and research articles on the above looking into various aspects such as microbial consortia present in MBRs, membranes used, fouling and cleaning of membranes, reactor configurations, loading rates and removal efficiencies of pollutants and other operating conditions. Information and results from all-scales (laboratory, pilot and full) will add great value.

Prof. Dr. Jega Veeriah Jegatheesan
Prof. Dr. Taku Fujiwara
Prof. Dr. Yang Zhang
Dr. Li Shu
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Environmental Performance of Small-Scale Seawater Reverse Osmosis Plant for Rural Area Water Supply
by Latifah Abdul Ghani, Nora’aini Ali, Ilyanni Syazira Nazaran and Marlia M. Hanafiah
Membranes 2021, 11(1), 40; https://doi.org/10.3390/membranes11010040 - 06 Jan 2021
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Seawater desalination is an alternative technology to provide safe drinking water and to solve water issues in an area having low water quality and limited drinking water supply. Currently, reverse osmosis (RO) is commonly used in the desalination technology and experiencing significant growth. [...] Read more.
Seawater desalination is an alternative technology to provide safe drinking water and to solve water issues in an area having low water quality and limited drinking water supply. Currently, reverse osmosis (RO) is commonly used in the desalination technology and experiencing significant growth. The aim of this study was to analyze the environmental impacts of the seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) plant installed in Kampung Pantai Senok, Kelantan, as this plant was the first installed in Malaysia. The software SimaPro 8.5 together with the ReCiPe 2016 database were used as tools to evaluate the life cycle assessment (LCA) of the SWRO plant. The results showed that the impact of global warming (3.90 kg CO2 eq/year) was the highest, followed by terrestrial ecotoxicity (1.62 kg 1,4-DCB/year) and fossil resource scarcity (1.29 kg oil eq/year). The impact of global warming was caused by the natural gas used to generate the electricity, mainly during the RO process. Reducing the environmental impact can be effectively achieved by decreasing the electricity usage for the seawater desalination process. As a suggestion, electricity generation can be overcome by using a high-flux membrane with other suitable renewable energy for the plant such as solar and wind energy. Full article
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