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Olga Kulesha and Harsha Ratnaweera
The membrane bioreactor (MBR) and the biofilm membrane bioreactor (BF-MBR) are among key solutions to water scarcity; however, membrane fouling is the major bottleneck for any expansion of these technologies. Prepolymerized aluminum coagulants tend to ex...
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Jianbo Liao, Shuang Li, Yihong Liu, Siyuan Mao, Tuo Tian, Xueyan Ma, Bing Li and Yong Qiu
It is essential to reduce carbon emissions in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) to achieve carbon neutrality in society. However, current optimization of WWTPs prioritizes the operation cost index (OCI) and effluent quality index (EQI) over greenhouse ...
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Wendi Shen, Lili An, Xin Xu, Feng Yan and Ruihua Dai
Harmful cyanobacterial blooms pose a serious environmental threat to global water ecology and drinking water safety. Microcystis aeruginosa, a dominant cyanobacterial species in cyanobacterial blooms, was removed using the electro-flocculation?electro-Fe...
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Luisa Boni, Marco Bassetto and Alessandro A. Quarta
Photonic solar sails are a class of advanced propellantless propulsion systems that use thin, large, lightweight membranes to convert the momentum of light from the Sun into thrust for space navigation. The conceptually simple nature of such a fascinatin...
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Lichun Chang, Yao Zhao, Hua Yuan and Zhenshuai Wei
The surface-flattening process has many applications in industries such as shipbuilding. Curved surfaces in the industry are usually formed from flat surfaces, so the target surface needs to be flattened to obtain its corresponding initial shape. In addi...
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Jiaqi Ding, Ying Wan, Yujia Zou, Songlin Wang, Xiaolong Huang and Pengchao Xie
Sodium hypochlorite (NaClO) solution is wildly used to remove membrane fouling-derived organic materials and restore membrane flux, which can result in the formation of halogenated by-products. To reduce the halogenated by-products, a combined cleaning p...
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Wuhib Zeine Ousman, Esayas Alemayehu and Patricia Luis
Fluoride is a concern for human health at high concentrations, but it is also a valuable compound with multiple applications. Thus, having a system that gives the opportunity to remove and recover this valuable element from water is highly interesting. R...
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Biagio Bianchi, Bruno Molino, Filippo Catalano, Ferruccio Giametta, Antonio Jacopo Molino and Luigi Ambrosone
Nanofiltration and reverse osmosis are used in the concentration of grape musts in winemaking. Both technologies offer an effective way to concentrate the grape musts, reducing the volume and the solids content to achieve desired characteristics in the f...
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Kaixuan Zhao, Hongzhen Li, Jiangtao Ji, Qianwen Li, Mengsong Li, Yongkang He, Jinlong Li and Suhe Xing
Agaricus bisporus is widely cultivated worldwide due to its considerable economic benefits. The increasingly prominent contradiction between production and labor shortage necessitates the urgent replacement of human workers with intelligent picking techn...
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Jianwei Zeng, Xuegang Chen, Shidi Jin and Jiajia Fan
Harmful algal blooms (HABs) caused by Heterosigma akashiwo are occurring in coastal waters frequently, posing a great risk to marine environments and subsequent treatment processes like desalination. UV-assisted permanganate oxidation (UV/KMnO4) is recog...
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