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Biofouling of Water Treatment Membranes: A Review of the Underlying Causes, Monitoring Techniques and Control Measures

Overview of attention for article published in Membranes, November 2012
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#31 of 2,087)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (90th percentile)

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Title
Biofouling of Water Treatment Membranes: A Review of the Underlying Causes, Monitoring Techniques and Control Measures
Published in
Membranes, November 2012
DOI 10.3390/membranes2040804
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Authors

Thang Nguyen, Felicity A Roddick, Linhua Fan

Abstract

Biofouling is a critical issue in membrane water and wastewater treatment as it greatly compromises the efficiency of the treatment processes. It is difficult to control, and significant economic resources have been dedicated to the development of effective biofouling monitoring and control strategies. This paper highlights the underlying causes of membrane biofouling and provides a review on recent developments of potential monitoring and control methods in water and wastewater treatment with the aim of identifying the remaining issues and challenges in this area.

Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 976 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
India 3 <1%
United States 2 <1%
Netherlands 2 <1%
South Africa 2 <1%
Canada 2 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
United Arab Emirates 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Denmark 1 <1%
Other 1 <1%
Unknown 960 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 212 22%
Student > Master 190 19%
Researcher 105 11%
Student > Bachelor 91 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 48 5%
Other 110 11%
Unknown 220 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Engineering 213 22%
Environmental Science 125 13%
Chemical Engineering 95 10%
Chemistry 81 8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 56 6%
Other 129 13%
Unknown 277 28%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 28 November 2023.
All research outputs
#2,753,249
of 23,467,261 outputs
Outputs from Membranes
#31
of 2,087 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#27,029
of 279,906 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Membranes
#1
of 4 outputs
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