KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
发明人:
Adnan QAMAR,Luca FORTUNATO,TorOve LEIKNES
申请号：
US16078315
公开号：
US20190358352A1
申请日:
2017.02.24
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2019
代理人:
摘要：
Provided herein is a universally applicable biofouling mitigation technology using acoustically excited encapsulated microbubbles that disrupt biofilm or biofilm formation. For example, a method of reducing biofilm formation or removing biofilm in a membrane filtration system is provided in which a feed solution comprising encapsulated microbubbles is provided to the membrane under conditions that allow the encapsulated microbubbles to embed in a biofilm. Sonication of the embedded, encapsulated microbubbles disrupts the biofilm. Thus, provided herein is a membrane filtration system for performing the methods and encapsulated microbubbles specifically selected for binding to extracellular polymeric substances (EFS) in a biofilm.
