Biofouling has been referred to as “the Achilles heel” of reverse osmosis (RO) membrane technology; the main cause being polyamide RO membranes lack of chlorine tolerance. Biofouling increases the ...

A research team led by Prof. WAN Yinhua from the Institute of Process Engineering (IPE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a dual-functional reverse osmosis (RO) membrane with enhanced ...

Membrane distillation (MD), a thermally driven separation technology, has been actively explored in an array of water treatment applications, ranging from seawater desalination to wastewater ...

Reverse osmosis (RO) has attracted wide attention for its extensive applicability in brackish water and seawater desalination. Thin-film composite (TFC) polyamide (PA) RO membranes consisting of a ...

I recently moved to a new house in Gurgaon, and the house has a borewell as the water source. While we were initially buying bottled water, I decided to invest in a water purifier. Now, while buying ...