An international look of seawater reverse osmois pretreatment applications. The issues of membrane scaling and fouling are addressed as well as insight on the need for further research on the efficacy of microfiltration and ultrafiltration for pretreatment....

In this paper, biopolymer produced by marine bacteria was monitored over time to determine the TEP production coefficient. During the experiment, cultured marine bacteria was incubated in a 1 liter flask under room temperature with shaking. The cultured marine bacteria was allowed to grow in the flask for 7 days. Water samples were taken from the 1...

Subsurface intake systems are generally believed to deliver higher quality of feed water compared to open-ocean intake systems. Some new research results are reported from several desalination plants; two plants located on the Red Sea and one on the Caribbean Sea. These facilities were assessed to compare the feedwater fouling potential of the open...

Transparent-exopolymer-particles (TEP) are reported as a significant contributor to organic fouling of low pressure membranes and biofouling of RO membranes. TEP-like substances are generally synthesised from algae and bacteria, but most research only investigates algal TEP instead of bacterial TEP. Results show bacterial mixed TEP caused severe fo...