Hybrid Treatment System to Remove Micromolecular SMPs from Fruit Wastewater Treated with an MBR

Fruit processors want to reduce their environmental footprint by implementing the recycling of treated wastewater. Observations of a membrane bioreactor (MBR) and reverse osmosis (RO) system showed that the RO quickly fouled due to elevated levels of soluble microbial products (SMPs), an inert micromolecular composition in the form of dissolved organic matter (DOM) in the MBR effluent. Bench-scale experiments were performed using enhanced...