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JOURNAL OF MEMBRANE SCIENCE
Volume 351, Issue 1-2, Pages 112-122Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2010.01.035
Keywords
Reverse osmosis (RO) membrane; Membrane biofouling; Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm; Hydrophobicity; Extracellular polymeric substances (EPS)
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- Ministry of Construction & Transportation of Korean government [C106A1520001-06A085500121]
- Ministry of Education, Science and Technology [400-2008-0230]
- Korea Agency for Infrastructure Technology Advancement (KAIA) [44692] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
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In order to evaluate the effect of membrane surface properties on the initial stage of biofouling, in the reverse osmosis (RO) membrane process, initial bacterial adhesion and biofilm formation experiments were performed under no filtration condition. In this study, five commercialized polyamide thin-film composite RO membranes (SW30HRLE, SW30HR (Dow FilmTec Co., USA), TM820 (Toray Co., Japan), RE-BE, RE-FE (Woongiin Chemical Co., Korea)) were chosen and their surface properties such as surface charge, roughness, hydrophobicity and surface morphology were measured. For examining initial bacterial adhesion, a flow channel reactor was employed for 3 h, while for examining a biofilm formation, the CDC reactor was employed for 48 h. Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 tagged with GFP was selected as a model bacterial strain. Major findings in this study indicate that although the initial bacterial cell adhesion in a flow channel reactor indicated more bacterial cells attachment on the membrane surface with higher hydrophobicity, the extent of biofilm grown in CDC reactor for 48 h became similar regardless of the difference of the membrane surface properties, indicating that the membrane surface properties become a less important factor affecting the biofilm growth on the membrane surface. This finding will be helpful in improving the understanding of biofouling issue occurring in the real RO membrane system, although practical implication is somewhat limited since this study was performed under no filtration condition. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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