An electroactive membrane for antibiotic degradation, whose performance drops significantly in real MBR effluent due to attachment of small organic matters.
Mo, Yinghui · Yihan, Wang · Wang, Liang
Journal of Hazardous Materials 2025
By comparing real effluent and synthetic feed, the study pinpoints small effluent organic matters as the primary cause of the dramatic drop in removal rate, guiding the selection of pretreatment processes.
Fouling layers formed by large effluent organic matters and inorganic precipitates on the membrane surface can prevent small organics from covering interior reactive sites and extend the retention time of antibiotics within the membrane.