S.A. Creber

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated chemical cleaning of bio-fouled RO membranes using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and found that early removal of biofilm was more efficient in removing biomass than cleaning performed at a later stage.

TL;DR: Despite the opaque nature of membrane design, NMR microscopy is shown to be able to provide a non-invasive quantitative measurement of RO membrane biofouling and its impact on hydrodynamics and mass transport.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques to study biofilm accumulation and removal using chemical cleaning on reverse osmosis (RO) membranes and a previously validated biofilm simulation model was modified to account for cleaning operations.

TL;DR: 3D simulation of RO membrane biofouling based on a lattice Boltzmann (LB) platform is presented and favorably compare with experimental data.

TL;DR: Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) techniques were used to quantify the transport of colloids through porous media and probing the displacement (probability distribution) propagators of both the colloidal and continuous liquid phase found the flowing colloids to experience a velocity acceleration factor increase relative to the continuous phase.