It Costs How Much? How MBR Economics are Changing the Game
This paper describes the experience of the La Center WWTP plant upgrade to MBR and reinforces the notion that MBR technology is cost competitive with conventional approaches for wastewater treatment. […]
Investigating Nanofiltration Membrane Processes for Removing Trace Chemicals of Emerging Concern
This paper discusses the findings of experiments evaluating the rejection of compounds of emerging concern (CECs) via nanofiltration membranes. In addition a description of the Town of Jupiter NF facilities […]
Hybrid Biofiltration and Integrated Membrane Systems for Treatment of Produced Water and Frac Flowback Wastewater
This study evaluates the performance of Ultrafiltration (UF) and Nanofiltration (NF) membranes following biologically active filtration (BAF) pretreatment of Piceance and Denver-Julesburg (DJ) basins produced water (PW) and frac flowback […]
Role of Membrane Technology in Seawater Desalination: Past, Present, and Future
This PowerPoint examines the role of membranes in Seawater desalination both past, current and future
Evaluation of MF/UF Chemical Cleaning Strategies in Direct Potable Reuse Applications
This paper will discuss the results of this testing and cleaning of microfiltration and ultrafiltration membranes used for potable reuse. Emphasis will be on optimal Clean in place strategies and […]
Comparison of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Experimental Data for Fouling Mitigation with Sinusoidal Reverse Osmosis Spacer
This paper describes work done on a series of novel sinusoidal spacers that can form unobstructed sinusoidal membrane channels and the performance of various novel sinusoidal spacers and the conventional […]
The Development and Use of a Cost Estimating Tool to Compare Submerged and Pressurized Low Pressure Membrane Filtration to Granular Media Filtration
This paper describes a preliminary level design tool that was developed to compare foot print requirements, capital costs, and operational costs between granular media filtration and membrane technologies, both submerged […]
Properties Governing the Transport of Organic Pollutants Through Ion-Exchange Membranes in ED Desalination of Complex Waste Streams
This PowerPoint describes work done to examine the properties governing organic pollutant transport through an Ion Exchange Membrane in a Electrodialysis desalination of complex waste streams. A series of potential […]
MBR?S Role in Water Reuse
Quorum Quenching Membrane Bioreactor for Efficient Biofouling Control
This paper describes the investigation of a novel approach based on quorum quenching (QQ) to minimize biofouling and energy consumption in a Membrane bioreactor (MBR). More specifically, the effects of […]