Exploring the differences between forward osmosis and reverse osmosis fouling

• Main Authors: Siddiqui, Farrukh Arsalan, She, Qianhong, Fane, Anthony Gordon, Field, Robert W.
• Other Authors: Singapore Membrane Technology Centre
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Engineering::Environmental engineering; Forward Osmosis; Reverse Osmosis
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/138826
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

A comparison of alginate fouling in forward osmosis (FO) with that in reverse osmosis (RO) was made. A key experimental finding, corroborated by membrane autopsies, was that FO is essentially more prone to fouling than RO, which is opposite to a common claim in the literature where deductions on fou...