Gravity-driven microfiltration pretreatment for reverse osmosis (RO) seawater desalination: Microbial community characterization and RO performance

• Main Authors: Wu, Bing, Suwarno, Stanislaus Raditya, Tan, Hwee Sin, Kim, Lan Hee, Hochstrasser, Florian, 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: Biofouling; Assimilable organic carbon
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/86556; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/44070
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

A pilot gravity-driven microfiltration (GDM) reactor was operated on-site for over 250 days to pretreat seawater for reverse osmosis (RO) desalination. The microbial community analysis indicated that the dominant species in the pilot GDM system (~ 18.6 L/m2 h) were completely different from those in...