We provide methods, systems, and apparatus for treatment of high chemical oxygen demand wastewater using anaerobic treatment with ceramic membranes. We also provide post-treatment using microbial fuel cells.

A treatment system for removing hardness, silicon, and turbidity from wastewater having a high salt concentration, comprising an integrated reaction apparatus comprising a reaction box and a chemical drug adding device, and a membrane separation apparatus comprising a membrane pool and a membrane component. The wastewater having the high salt concentration enters the reaction box; a required chemical drug is added to the wastewater by means of the chemical drug adding device; the chemical drug and the wastewater are fully mixed and reacted to produce different kinds of sludge particles; a sludge particle mixed liquid directly enters the membrane pool; under the action of an aeration device, the sludge particle mixed liquid is in a suspension state and uniform in concentration, and is screened and filtered by the membrane component; and produced water is discharged from the membrane pool, and intercepted sludge particles are discharged from the membrane pool.

A method includes inducing a first quantity of a feed fluid (28) to flow along a first direction (72) from a bioreactor (12) to a tangential flow filter (16) to separate the first quantity of the feed fluid (28) into a permeate fluid (42) and a retentate fluid (48). Further, the control unit (66) is operated to control at least one feed flow control device (24, 26) to inhibit the flow of first quantity of the feed fluid (28). Furthermore, the control unit (66) is operated to control the at least one feed flow control device (24, 26) to direct at least one of further flow of a second quantity of the feed fluid (28) from the bioreactor (12), a portion of the permeate fluid (42), and a portion of a nutrient fluid, along a second direction (74) opposite to the first direction (72) via the tangential flow filter (16).

A system for producing steam includes a steam generator with steam output; a membrane filtration system in fluid communication with the steam output and including a membrane filter with a permeate side and an opposing retentate side. The membrane filter includes a separation membrane constructed to reject organic molecules. The system may be used for removing organic compounds, such as anti-corrosion agents or contaminants, from steam.

The present invention relates to a hollow fiber membrane module provided with: a tubular casing having a first end and a second end in the axial direction; a plurality of hollow fiber membranes; a first potting part; and a second potting part, the hollow fiber membrane module further having a flow regulation structure in which a fluid flowing outside the hollow fiber membranes from the second end side toward the first end side forms a flow directed to the radial center on the second end side of the first potting part, and further forms a radial flow directed from the radial center to the radially outer peripheral side on the second end side of the first potting part.

A hollow fiber membrane module includes: a hollow fiber membrane bundle; a housing formed with a port for allowing a cleaning gas for the hollow fiber membrane bundle to inflow therethrough for accommodating the hollow fiber membrane bundle; and a diffuser having a receiving surface for receiving the cleaning gas having entered through the port, the receiving surface being formed with diffusion hole for diffusing the cleaning gas to the hollow fiber membrane bundle in housing. The diffuser includes a partition dividing a space under the receiving surface into an inner space and an outer space surrounding the inner space and permitting the cleaning gas having entered through the port to flow thereinto. The diffusion hole is arranged to allow at least a part of the cleaning gas flowing in the outer space to diffuse from the inner space to the hollow fiber membrane bundle.

A cleaning-in-place method includes terminating a cleaning-in-place cycle if a deviation of a currently detected value of a backwash hydraulic parameter (P) from a value of the same backwash hydraulic parameter (P) detected in a previous backwash cycle (32, 34, 36 38) in the same cleaning-in-place cycle exceeds a predefined deviation limit value. A filter device is provided having a control device for carrying out a respective cleaning-in-place method.

A filter housing has an inlet end with an inlet for a feed liquid and an outlet end with an outlet for the feed liquid; an inlet for a permeate; an outlet for the permeate; an inlet for flushing liquid; and a holding device forming an inlet end and an outlet end for membrane filter rods oriented parallel to an axis. The filter housing has an internal perforated plate oriented perpendicular to the axis and positioned between the inlet end and the outlet end. The plate is has first through holes for the membrane filter rods and second through holes interspersed with the first through holes. The plate divides the filter housing into first and second internal compartments. A method is for filtering a main fluid in a filter housing to achieve an approximate uniform transmembrane pressure along the membrane filter rods.

The present invention provides, in various embodiments, hybrid single-pass tangential flow filtration assemblies, disposable single-pass tangential flow filtration assemblies, scalable single-pass tangential flow filtration assemblies and adaptable modular single-pass tangential flow filtration assemblies. In other embodiments, the invention relates to processes for recovering proteins from the surface of a filtration membrane in a single-pass tangential flow filtration assembly and for cleaning a tangential flow filtration assembly. In additional embodiments, the invention provides methods of increasing the processing capacity of a single-pass tangential flow filtration assembly.

A cleaning device includes: an ozone gas supply portion; an ozone dissolution tank including a gas phase portion in which ozone gas is to be accumulated and a liquid phase portion formed by water in which the ozone gas is to be dissolved; a gas phase portion ozone gas supply pipe for supplying ozone gas from the ozone gas supply portion to the gas phase portion; a liquid phase portion ozone gas supply pipe for supplying ozone gas from the ozone gas supply portion to the liquid phase portion; and an ozone water supply pipe for supplying ozone water generated in the ozone dissolution tank to a filtering secondary side, wherein the ozone water is supplied to the filtering secondary side by the pressure of ozone gas in the gas phase portion.