Publications

Desalination Process Science & Technology

Zach-Maor, A., R. Semiat, A. Rahardianto, Y. Cohen, S. Wilson, and S.R. Gray, “Diagnostic analysis of the technical feasibility of RO desalting of treated wastewater,” Desalination, 230, 239-247 (2008).

Zhu, A., P. D. Christofides and Y. Cohen, "Effect of Thermodynamic Restriction on Energy Cost Optimization of RO Membrane Water Desalination," Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, in press.

McFall, C., A. Bartman P. D. Christofides and Y. Cohen, "Control of reverse osmosis desalination at high recovery,'' Proceedings of the American Control Conference, 2241-2247, Seattle, Washington, 2008.

A. Bartman, C. McFall, P. D. Christofides and Y. Cohen, "Model-predictive control of feed flow reversal in a reverse osmosis desalination process," J. Process Control, in press (2008).

Cohen, Y., J. Glater, B. McCool, A. Rahardianto and M. Kim, “Membrane desalination of agricultural drainage water,” 60 pages, chapter in Salinity Drainage, Editors: A. C. Wang and D. Brikle, UC Press, in press.

McFall, C.W., A. Bartman, P. D. Christofides, and Y. Cohen. "Control and Monitoring of a High Recovery Reverse Osmosis Desalination Process," Ind.Eng.Chem Res., 2008, 47, 6698–6710 (2008).

McFall, C., P. D. Christofides, Y. Cohen and J. F. Davis, "Fault-tolerant control of a reverse-osmosis desalination process, ''Proceedings of 8th IFAC Symposium on Dynamics and Control of Process Systems - Volume 3, 163-168, Cancun, Mexico, 2007.

Gabelich, C.J., M. D. Williams, A. Rahardianto, J. C. Franklin, and Y. Cohen, "High-recovery reverse osmosis desalination using intermediate chemical demineralization," J. Membrane Science, 301, 131-141 (2007).

Hoek, E.M.V., “California’s experience with reverse osmosis,” Australian Water Issues, 79 (2007) 38-40.1.

Rahardianto, A., J. Gao, C.J. Gabelich, M. D. Williams and Y. Cohen, High recovery membrane desalting of low-salinity brackish water: Integration of accelerated precipitation softening with membrane RO, J. Membrane Science, 289 (2007) 123–137.

Libotean, D., J. Giralt, F. Giralt and Y. Cohen, Neural Network Modeling of the Performance of RO Desalination Processes, J. Membrane Science, in press.

Gabelich, C.J., J. C. Franklin, Y. Cohen and I. H. Suffet, “Reverse osmosis pretreatment: challenges with conventional treatment,” chapter in Membrane Treatment for Drinking Water & Reuse Applications: A Compendium of Peer-Reviewed Papers, K. J. Howe (Editor), American Water Works Association, Denver, CO (2006).

Gabelich, C. J., T. I. Yun, M. D. Williams, T. Knoll, W. Pearce, U. Daniel, Y. Cohen, E. M. V. Hoek, M. R. Matsumoto, L. Sangines-Uriate, P. John, R. Scherzinger and A. A. Mofidi, “Applied research for large-scale desalting applications: The Desalination Research and Innovation Partnership,” published chapter in Desalination of Seawater and Brackish Water, William C. Lauer (Editor), American Waterworks Association (October 30, 2006).

Gabelich, C. J., F. W. Gerringer, J. C. Franklin, J. Gao, Y. Cohen, and I. H. Suffet, Reverse osmosis pretreatment: challenges with conventional treatment, in Proceedings of the 2004 AWWA ACE Meeting, Orlando, Florida.

Lee, R-W, J. Glater, Y. Cohen, C. Martin, K. Kovac, M. N. Milobar and D. W. Bartel, Low-pressure RO membrane desalination of agricultural drainage water, Desalination 155 (2003) 109-120.

Williams, M., R. Evangelista and Y. Cohen (2002) Non-thermal process for recovering reverse osmosis concentrate: process chemistry and kinetics, in Proceedings of the 2002 AWWA Water Quality Technology Conference, Seattle, WA.

Concentration Polarization and RO/NF Channel Hydrodynamics

Lyster, E and Y. Cohen, Numerical study of concentration polarization in a rectangular reverse osmosis membrane channel: Permeate flux variation and hydrodynamic end effects, J. Membrane Science, 303, 140-153 (2007).

Kim, S. and E. M.V. Hoek, Modeling concentration polarization in reverse osmosis processes, Desalination, 186, 111-128 (2005).

Subramani, A. S.Kim and E. M.V. Hoek, Pressure, flow, and concentration profiles in open and spacer-filled membrane channels, J. Membrane Science, 277, 7-17 (2006).

Mineral Scaling of RO/NF Membranes

Rahardianto, A., B. C. McCool and Y. Cohen, Reverse osmosis desalting of inland brackish water of high gypsum scaling propensity: kinetics and mitigation of membrane mineral scaling, Env. Science & Technol, 42 (2008) 4292-4297.

Kim, M., J. Au, A. Rahardianto, J. Glater, Y. Cohen, F. W. Gerringer and C. J. Gabelich, “The Impact of Conventional Water Treatment Coagulants on Mineral Scaling in RO Desalting of Brackish Water,”, Industrial & Eng. Chem. Res., submitted

Jin, X., A. Jawor, S. Kim, and E.M.V. Hoek, “Influence of feed water temperature on separation performance and organic fouling of brackish water RO membranes,” Desalination (2008) Accepted, in press.

Uchymiak, M., A. Rahardianto, E. Lyster, J. Glater and Y. Cohen, Kinetics of gypsum crystal growth on a reverse osmosis membrane, Journal of Membrane Science, 314 (2008) 163-172.

Uchymiak, M., A. Rahardianto, E. Lyster, J. Glater and Y. Cohen, A novel RO ex situ scale observation detector (EXSOD) for mineral scale characterization and early detection, J. Membrane Science, 291 (2007) 86–95.

Rahardianto, A., W-Y Shih, R-W Lee and Y. Cohen, Diagnostic characterization of gypsum scale formation and control in RO membrane desalination of brackish water, J. Membrane Science, 279, 655-668 (2006).

Shih, W-Y, J. Gao, A. Rahardianto, J. Glater, Y. Cohen and C. J. Gabelich, Ranking of antiscalant performance for gypsum scale suppression in the presence of residual aluminum, Desalination, 196, 280–292 (2006).

Shih, W-Y, A. Rahardianto, R-W Lee and Y. Cohen, Morphometric characterization of calcium sulfate dihydrate (gypsum) scale on reverse osmosis membranes, J. Membrane Science 252 (2005) 253–263.

Shih, W-Y, K. Albrecht, J. Glater and Y. Cohen, A dual probe method for screening of antiscalants, Desalination 169 (2004) 213-221.

Membrane Fouling

Hoek, E.M.V., J. Allred, B.H. Jeong, and T. Knoell, “Modeling the effects of fouling on full scale reverse osmosis processes,” J. Membrane Science, 313 (2008) 33-49.

Libotean, D. M., J. Giralt, R. Rallo, Y,. Cohen, F. Giralt, H. F. Ridgway, G. Rodriguez, and D. Phipps, “Organic Compounds Passage Through RO Membranes,” J. Membrane Science, 313, 23-43 (2008).

Subramani, A. and E.M.V. Hoek, “Direct observation of initial microbial deposition onto reverse osmosis and nanofiltration membranes,” Journal of Membrane Science, 319 (2008) 111-125.

Jawor, A. and E.M.V. Hoek, “Influence of feed water temperature on inorganic fouling of brackish water RO membranes,” Desalination, in press.

Kim, S. and Eric M.V. Hoek, Interactions controlling biopolymer fouling of reverse osmosis membranes, Desalination, 202 (2007) 333-342.

Lee, S., S. Kim, J. Cho and E. M.V Hoek, Natural organic matter fouling due to foulant–membrane physicochemical interactions, Desalination, 202 (2007) 377-384.

Kang, S., E.M.V. Hoek, H. Choi, and H. Shin, "Effect of Membrane Surface Properties During the Fast Evaluation of Cell Attachment,” Separation Science and Technology 41 (2006) 1475-1487.

Kim, S., M. Marion, B.H. Jeong, and E.M.V. Hoek, Crossflow membrane filtration of interacting nanoparticle suspensions, J. Membrane Science 284 (2006) 361-372.

Hoek, E.M.V., and G.K. Agarwal, “Extended DLVO interactions between spherical particles and rough surfaces,” Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 298 (2006) 50-58.

Wang, S., G. Guillen, and E.M.V. Hoek, "Direct microscopic observation of microbial adhesion to membranes," Environmental Science & Technology, in press.

Kang, S., A. Subramani, E.M.V. Hoek, M.A. Deshusses, and M.R. Matsumoto, Direct observation of biofouling in cross-flow microfiltration, Journal of Membrane Science, 244 (2004) 151-165.

Membrane technology research committee report: recent advances and research needs in membrane fouling, J. American Water Works Association 97 (2005) 79-89.

Membranes Development & Related Synthesis Methods

Gregory T. Lewis, Gregory R. Nowling, Robert F. Hicks, and Yoram Cohen, "Inorganic Surface Nanostructuring by Atmospheric Pressure Plasma-Induced Graft Polymerization," Langmuir, 23, 10756-10764 (200&).

Lewis, G. T. and Y. Cohen, “Controlled Nitroxide-mediated styrene surface graft polymerization with atmospheric plasma surface activation,” in press, Langmuir, 24, 13102-13112 (2008).

Lewis, G. T., V. Nguyen, W-Y Shih and Y. Cohen, "Reverse Atom Transfer Radical Graft Polymerization of 4- Vinylpyridine onto Inorganic Oxide Surfaces," J. Appl PolymSci., submitted.

Hoek, E.M.V. and A.K. Ghosh, “Nanotechnology-based membranes for water purification,” in Nanotechnology Applications: Solutions for Improving Water Quality, Mamadou Diallo, Jeremiah Duncan, Nora Savage, Anita Street, (Eds.), William Andrew Publishing, 2008.

Ghosh, A.K., B.H. Jeong, X. Huang, and E.M.V. Hoek, “Impacts of reaction and curing conditions on polyamide composite reverse osmosis membrane properties,” J.Membrane Science, 311 (2008) 34-45.

Jeong, B-H, E. M.V. Hoek, Y. Yan, A. Subramani, X. Huang, G. Hurwitz, A. K. Ghosh and A. Jawor, Interfacial polymerization of thin film nanocomposites: A new concept for reverse osmosis membranes, J. Membrane Science, 294 (2007) 1-7.

Lewis, G. T., V. Nguyen and Y. Cohen, Synthesis of poly(4-vinylpyridine) by reverse atom transfer radical polymerization, J. Polymer Sci.: Part A: Polymer Chemistry, 45, 5748-5758 (2007).

Yoshida, Y. and Y. Cohen, Removal of methyl tert-butyl ether from water by pervaporation using ceramic-supported 
polymer membranes, J. Membrane Science,229, 27-32 (2004).

Subsurface Water Transport

Grifoll, J., J. M. Gasto and Y. Cohen, Non-isothermal soil water transport and evaporation, Advances in Water Resources, 28, 1254-1266 (2005).