Process-Oriented Review of Bacterial Quorum Quenching for Membrane Biofouling Mitigation in Membrane Bioreactors (MBRs)

• Published in: Membranes (Basel) Vol. 6; no. 4; p. 52
• Main Authors: Bouayed, Naila, Dietrich, Nicolas, Lafforgue, Christine, Lee, Chung-Hak, Guigui, Christelle
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 13.12.2016; MDPI
• Subjects: acyl-homoserine lactones; acylase; Bacteria; biofilm; Biofilms; Biofouling; Bioreactors; Chemical engineering; Chemical Sciences; Disruption; Environment and Society; Environmental Sciences; extracellular polymeric substances (EPS); lactonase; membrane bioreactors; Membranes; Microorganisms; Multiscale analysis; Quorum Quenching; Quorum Sensing; Review; Rhodococcus; Quorum Quenching; biofouling; Quorum Sensing; lactonase; acyl-homoserine lactones; biofilm; acylase; extracellular polymeric substances (EPS); membrane bioreactors
• ISSN: 2077-0375; 2077-0375
• DOI: 10.3390/membranes6040052

Quorum Quenching (QQ) has been developed over the last few years to overcome practical issues related to membrane biofouling, which is currently the major difficulty thwarting the extensive development of membrane bioreactors (MBRs). QQ is the disruption of Quorum Sensing (QS), cell-to-cell communic...