Katsuki Kimura

TL;DR: In this article, a comprehensive review on membrane cleaning in MBRs is presented, and the existing challenges and future research efforts are discussed in order to ensure the development of membrane cleaning toward a more effective and sustainable way in MBR.

TL;DR: Chemical analysis, adsorptive fractionation methods, fluorescence excitation-emission matrix (EEM) and Fourie-transformed infra-red spectra analysis indicated that polysaccharide-like organic matter was responsible for the evolution of the irreversible fouling.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the rejection of organic micropollutants such as disinfection byproducts (DBPs), endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs), and pharmaceutically active compounds (PhACs) by nanofiltration and reverse osmosis (RO) membranes as a function of their physico-chemical properties and initial feed water concentration.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the ability of RO membranes to retain neutral (uncharged) endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs) and pharmaceutically active compounds (PhACs).

TL;DR: It was shown that high F/M would make the foulant more proteinaceous, while Carbohydrates were dominant in membrane foulants in this study, while features of humic substances were not apparent.