What is it about?
Marine microbes cause a great problems to the future of desalination of see water by damaging the reverse osmosis membranes. Therefore, it is critical to optimize the pretreatment stage in order to fully eliminate microbes from passing through and reach RO membrane.
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Why is it important?
This work identify potential bacteria that play a crucial role in membrane bio-fouling for the SWRO stations. listing bacteria and other biofoulant provides the foundation to build a data base for micro-inhabitants that are responsible for membrane damage. indeed, microbial identification of bio-film forming species will help identify the problems at the species level. In this research we recommended to reevaluate and optimize the pretreatment stage to prevent any potential bio-film forming species to attach RO membrane.
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Bio-film forming bacteria in reverse osmosis desalination station require special per-treatment stage based on the microbe content of the inlet see water.
Hatem Mohamed
University of Jeddah
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This page is a summary of: Potential biofoulants in open-ocean SWRO desalination station in Jeddah, KSA, Water Science & Technology Water Supply, December 2017, IWA Publishing,
DOI: 10.2166/ws.2017.246.
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