This review presents state-of-the-art progress in 2D-enabled TFN membranes for RO and NF applications water treatment with emphasis on impact of 2D nanosheet membrane properties, performance, its associated challenges.

This study addresses the possibility for nanofiltration (NF) and reverse osmosis (RO) membrane processes to serve as an alternative to remove low levels of selected antibiotics from wastewaters and surface waters given changing water conditions such as pH and presence of natural organic matter (NOM). Preliminary experimental results obtained with a dead-end filtration apparatus suggest that ads...

In this paper, the removal of phenol by using aqueous solution in a low pressure reverse osmosis membrane was investigated. The effect of feed pressure, feed concentration, feed flow rate and feed pH on phenol rejection was investigated. The results showed that feed pH is the most affective parameter on the phenol rejection. Rejection of phenol increased with increasing pH from 2 to 10 under th...

The main purpose of this article is to study fabrication methods and applications of aligned carbon nanotube (CNT) membranes as a hydraulic microstructure in treatment processes. This paper emphasizes the use of CNTs as membrane in separation processes like water and wastewater treatment because of their exclusive advantages. Their most important characteristics are high mechanical strength aga...

The antibiotic ionophores RO 2-2985 (Hoffman-LaRoche; X537A) and A23187 (Lilly) produced an abrupt release of previously bound calcium from isolated sarcoplasmic reticulum. Only RO 2-2985 produced a significant inhibition of sodium, potassium-adenosinetriphosphatase activity. In anesthetized, open-chest dogs, RO 2-2985 caused a marked increase in right and left ventricular contractile force, ao...

1383-5866/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier B.V. A http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.seppur.2012.08.002 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel./fax: +81 78 803 6180. E-mail address: [email protected] (H. Matsu To reduce membrane fouling of reverse osmosis (RO) membrane, we adopted layer-by-layer (LbL) assembly. LbL assembly has received attention as a means of preparing ultrathin layers of composite membrane...

Extra treatment stages are required to polish the secondary effluent for unrestricted reuse, primarily for agricultural irrigation. Improved technology for the removal of particles, turbidity, bacteria and cysts, without the use of disinfectants is based on MicroFiltration (MF) and UltraFiltration (UF) membrane technology and in series with Reverse Osmosis (RO) for dissolved solids removal. Fie...

Abstract Microcoagulation has recently been considered as a promising pretreatment for an ultrafiltration (UF) process from numerous studies. To investigate the effects of microcoagulation on performance UF–reverse osmosis (RO) system treating wastewater with high and fluctuant salinity, different dosages coagulant (poly-aluminum chloride) were added prior to UF unit in pilot-scale UF–RO 10-wee...

In the present work, B-ZSM-5 zeolite membranes were synthesized on porous tubular α-alumina supports by several subsequence in situ crystallization hydrothermal treatments. The TiO2- Bohmite and ɣ- alumina intermediate layers were applied to improve the lattice matching between zeolite layer and the support. The uniform membrane intermediate layers with low permeation resistance were...

Membrane fouling properties and different physical cleaning methods for forward osmosis (FO) and reverse osmosis (RO) laboratory-scale filtration systems were investigated. The membrane fouling, with respect to flux reduction, was lower in FO than in RO when testing an activated sludge effluent. Crossflow velocity, air-scouring, osmotic backwashing and effect of a spacer were compared to determ...