Research Papers by Eunkyung Lee

• We compare drinking water treatment systems, a NF unit and a conventional treatment. • Sustainable water quality improvement using renewable energy is demonstrated. • Membranes are more efficient than conventional treatment removing micropollutants. • Membranes reject hydrophobic compounds causing

The main purpose of this study is to evaluate a combined ozone and microfiltration (MF) membrane process as pre-treatment of a seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) system. During the filtration of seawater (SW) with the MF membranes, membrane fouling on both hydrophilic (PHI) and hydrophobic (PHO) MF mem

Organic matter dissolved in seawater should be analyzed carefully since organic fouling is one of the main reasons for low performances of seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) processes. Because of various ionic constitutions with high concentrations in seawater, the seawater organic matter analysis is d

The transmission and toxicity of metals and metalloids were initially investigated with various nanofiltration (NF) and seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) membranes, under oxic condition, using wastewater effluent and seawater samples. Various metals and metalloids were categorized into three groups ac

Perchlorate and tris(2-chloroethyl) phosphate (TCEP), which have been widely detected micropollutants in rivers and wastewater effluents, were investigated in terms of removals by nanofiltration (NF) membranes under different membrane feed water conditions. For this study, NF membranes with differen

Boron (B) is an important element which should be considered seriously for drinking water production. Boron removal from seawater using nanofiltration (NF) and reverse osmosis (RO) membranes was investigated. Increase in salt concentration effects boron removal positively when RO membranes and negat