Bioresource technologyUltraviolet RaysBiofoulingQuorum SensingBiofilmsOsmosis
Isolation and performance of ultraviolet tolerant bacterium strain for pretreatment and quorum quenching to control reverse osmosis biofouling.
Xiaolei Zhang, Jingrui Liu, Shanna Shu, Yingying Qi, Huhui Chen, Qiang Liu, Ping Yao, Long D Nghiem
Published: 202610.1016/j.biortech.2025.133422
Abstract
Conventional biocides and UV disinfection are often ineffective against biofouling in reverse osmosis (RO). This study explores a new approach to combine Staphylococcus sp. SSN, a UV-tolerant quorum quenching (QQ) bacterium isolated from activated sl…
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