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EDITORIAL article
Front. Membr. Sci. Technol.
Sec. Membrane Modules and Processes
Volume 4 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/frmst.2025.1591950
This article is part of the Research Topic Celebrating 1 Year of Frontiers in Membrane Science and Technology View all 10 articles
Editorial: Celebrating 1 year of Frontiers in Membrane Science and Technology
Provisionally accepted
Michael D. Guiver 1* Nalan Kabay 2*- 1 State Key Laboratory of Engines, Tianjin University, Nankai, Tianjin, China
- 2 Department of Bioengineering, Faculty of Engineering, Ege University, Izmir, Türkiye
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showcasing cutting-edge research, novel developments, new insights and on the outlook of the future directions of membrane science and technology. This Research Topic has nine papers in different disciplines.Paper 1 "Evaluation of fouling and chemical cleaning of reverse osmosis membrane after treatment of geothermal water" by Zaid et al. explores membrane fouling and mineral scaling, which are major problems for desalination process using reverse osmosis (RO) membranes. Membrane characteristics, water quality, operational conditions, biofouling, organic fouling, and inorganic scaling were considered to limit the overall performance of RO systems by increasing energy cost, decreasing membrane lifespan, and increasing chemical cleaning frequency. This paper focused on periodic chemical cleaning of RO membrane used for the cycle treatment of the geothermal water having high mineral scaling characteristics during a mini-pilot-scale field test. Water permeability tests were applied before and after chemical cleaning to monitor flux decline after each cycle and flux recovery after chemical cleaning with citric acid solution. The anti-scalant employed in this study was not found to be effective for the prevention of membrane scaling; instead, pretreatment was needed to remove scalants from geothermal water prior to RO treatment.
Keywords: Reverse osmosis (RO), Anion Exchange Membrane (AEM), Direct contact membrane distillation (DCMD), oily wastewater, Deep eutectic green solvents, membrane gas separation, Forward osmosis (FO), Membrane fouling and cleaning
Received: 11 Mar 2025; Accepted: 21 Mar 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Guiver and Kabay. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Michael D. Guiver, State Key Laboratory of Engines, Tianjin University, Nankai, 300072, Tianjin, China
Nalan Kabay, Department of Bioengineering, Faculty of Engineering, Ege University, Izmir, 35040, Türkiye
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