The objective of this paper is to critically review the significance of MBR technology for wastewater treatment derived Biodiesel plant with Alkali-Catalyzed Trans-esterification process. The whole study was carried out into two stages. In the first stage, pretreatment was studied with H2SO4 at the different pH range of 2.4 to 9 along with the removal efficiencies of BOD, COD and Oil & Greases....

A novel quorum quenching (QQ) strain, Acinetobacter guillouiae ST01, was isolated from a full-scale membrane bioreactor (MBR) and characterized for its QQ activities. Batch reactor studies at lab-scale showed that A. ST01 exhibited higher activity against acyl homoserine lactones (AHLs) with an oxo group compared to those without group. The organism then inoculated (10%) in MBR (Q-MBR) treating...

This study looked for M. leprae in the lymph node, nerve and skin of multibacillary (MB) leprosy patients who become slit skin smear negative after the completion of WHO-MBR. Twenty-five WHO-MBR-treated multibacillary leprosy patients were studied; borderline lepromatous (BL) leprosy (n = 11) and lepromatous (LL) leprosy (n = 14)). Fifteen patients had reaction (erythema nodosum leprosum 11, up...

In conventional activated sludge (CAS) involving aerobic biological processes, the retention of silica nanoparticles (SiO2 NPs) has no detrimental effect on chemical oxygen demand (COD) and ammonia nitrogen (NH3–N) removal. However, for the membrane bioreactor (MBR) system, which is also based on the activated sludge process in addition to the membrane separation process, it has implications no...

Biofilm formation, one of the primary causes of biofouling, results in reduced membrane flux or increased transmembrane pressure and thus represents a major impediment to the wider implementation of membrane bioreactor (MBR) technologies for water purification. Most studies have focused on the role of bacteria in membrane fouling as they are the most dominant and best studied organisms present ...

The catalytic inefficiencies of the CO2-fixing enzyme ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (Rubisco) often limit plant productivity. Strategies to engineer more efficient plant Rubiscos have been hampered by evolutionary constraints, prompting interest in Rubisco isoforms from non-photosynthetic organisms. The methanogenic archaeon Methanococcoides burtonii contains a Rubisco isoform...

Membrane hydrophilic modification has been applied as an effective antifouling strategy for aerobic and anaerobic heterotrophic membrane bioreactors (MBRs), while its performance remains unclear ammonium oxidation (anammox) MBR. Herein, membranes (Mh) modified from pristine nylon fabric meshes (Mp, pore size of 20 μm), were in long-term operation anammox Although the average flux Mh was 90.7% h...