Sustainable organic loading rate and energy recovery potential of mesophilic anaerobic membrane bioreactor for municipal wastewater treatment

Membrane fouling control using a rotary disk in a submerged anaerobic membrane sponge bioreactor

“…The feasible suggestions to overcome this problem could be found in the recently published works. Wei et al (2014) proposed that the coupling of the heat energy transfer from permeate into feed by the heat pump and the increased methane recovery by forward osmosis would reduce required heat energy during AnMBR operation. Also, Prieto et al (2013) implied that improved biogas generation and energy conversion efficiencies in a large scale scenario could easily offset reactor's heating requirements.…”

Characterization of biofoulants illustrates different membrane fouling mechanisms for aerobic and anaerobic membrane bioreactors

“…Both UA reactors were filled with ceramic ring media with an average 1.5 cm diameter and length. The seed sludge in both systems originated from the same source, and comprised of camel manure and anaerobic sludge from a wastewater treatment plant in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia [23]. No oxygen or air supply was provided in the AnMBR.…”

Green technology in wastewater treatment technologies: Integration of membrane bioreactor with various wastewater treatment systems

“…The reactor contained two parts; outer part performs as anaerobic fluidized bed reactor with GAC as carriers and the inner part serves as anaerobic MBR [66]. Wei, et al [67] studied the comprehensive effects of organic loading rates (OLR) on methane production as well as organic removal and biomass production to optimize AnMBR operation. A very steady and high COD removal was achieved over a broad range of volumetric organic loading rates (OLR).…”