Biofouling Mitigation Approaches during Water Recovery from Fermented Broth via Forward Osmosis.

ABSTRACT: Forward Osmosis (FO) is a promising technology that can offer sustainable solutions in the biorefinery wastewater and desalination fields, via low energy water recovery. However, microbial biomass and organic matter accumulation on membrane surfaces can hinder the water recovery and potentially lead to total membrane blockage. Biofouling development is a rather complex process and can be affected by several factors such as nutrient availability, chemical composition of the solutions, and hydrodynamic conditions. Therefore, operational parameters like cross-flow velocity and pH of the filtration solution have been proposed as effective biofouling mitigation strategies. Nevertheless, most of the studies have been conducted with the use of rather simple solutions. As a result, biofouling miti

SUBMITTER: Kalafatakis S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7693741 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature