Biofouling and Microbial Communities in Membrane Distillation and Reverse Osmosis. Biofouling and Microbial Communities in Membrane Distillation and Reverse Osmosis

Here, we use estuarine water collected from Long Island Sound in a bench-scale direct contact MD system to investigate the initial stages of biofilm formation. For comparison, we studied biofilm formation in a bench-scale reverse osmosis (RO) system using the same feed water.