Improved performance of gravity-driven membrane filtration for seawater pretreatment: Implications of membrane module configuration

• Main Authors: Tan, Hwee Sin, Hochstrasser, Florian, Wu, Bing, Christen, Tino, Suwarno, Stanislaus Raditya, Liu, Xin, Chong, Tzyy Haur, Burkhardt, Michael, Pronk, Wouter, Fane, Anthony Gordon
• Other Authors: School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Eukaryotes; Gravity-driven membrane filtration
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/80772; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/42224
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

As a low energy and chemical free process, gravity-driven membrane (GDM) filtration has shown a potential for seawater pretreatment in our previous studies. In this study, a pilot submerged GDM reactor (effective volume of 720 L) was operated over 250 days and the permeate flux stabilized at 18.6 ±...