“…During the biodecolorization process, the biomass load was sufficient to form active biofilms to ensure complete biodegradation of the dyes, even with the short contact times associated to one-pass direct filtration operation. Even so, low permeate flow allowed the dye molecules to interact sufficiently with the microorganisms, stimulating the effective biodecolorization rate [61,62], though higher permeate flux is of course detrimental for achieving high biodegradation [63,64]. Therefore, the increase of the permeate flux from 0.05 to 0.075 L•m −2 •h −1 and, finally, to 0.1 L•m −2 •h −1 provides declining decolorization of ADM, MB and RhB dye solutions up to 94%, 98% and 85%, respectively, in B-CSGOM, which are more evident for B-CSCM, where they decreased to 89% for ADM, 94% for MB and 66% for the most reluctant RhB.…”