Assessing Bacterial Growth Potential in Seawater Reverse Osmosis Pretreatment: Method Development and Applications: Method Development and Application

ISBN-13: 9780367899066 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 206 str.

Almotasembellah Abushaban

Opis

This research developed a new method to measure bacterial growth potential using the native bacterial consortium in seawater. New reagents to extract and detect ATP in microbial cells were specifically developed for seawater.

Spis treści

1 General introduction,  2 Direct measurement of ATP in seawater and application of ATP to monitor bacterial growth potential in SWRO pre-treatment systems,  3 ATP measurement in seawater reverse osmosis systems: elimination seawater matrix effects using a filtration-based method,  4 Assessing pretreatment and seawater reverse osmosis performance using an ATP-based bacterial growth potential method,  5 Correlating bacterial growth potential measurement to fouling development in full-scale SWRO,  6 Fouling removal in seawater media filtration used as pre-treatment of a full scale SWRO desalination plant,  7 General conclusions and future perspective.

O autorze

Abushaban completed his MSc in Municipal water and infrastructure at UNSECO-IHE, Netherlands. He is currently finalizing his PhD at Delft University of Technology, in which his research focused on development of methods to control biofouling and scaling of reverse osmosis (RO) and ultrafiltration membrane systems. His work included bench-scale, pilot-scale and even full-scale plants. Abushaban has extensive experience in assessing and troubleshooting the pre-treatment and membrane filtration performance of full-scale seawater/industrial treatment plants. Abushaban was awarded the innovation prize of the international desalination association (IDA) in 2017. Furthermore, Abushaban has worked as water and wastewater consultant engineer, in which he managed designing and rehabilitation of several water supply and sanitation projects in Palestine.