Use of rhamnolipid biosurfactant for membrane biofouling prevention and cleaning
- Authors
- Kim, Lan Hee; Jung, Yongmoon; Kim, Sung-Jo; Kim, Chang-Min; Yu, Hye-Weon; Park, Hee-Deung; Kim, In S.
- Issue Date
- 2015
- Publisher
- TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
- Keywords
- rhamnolipid; Pseudomonas aeruginosa; biofouling reduction; reverse osmosis membrane
- Citation
- BIOFOULING, v.31, no.2, pp.211 - 220
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- BIOFOULING
- Volume
- 31
- Number
- 2
- Start Page
- 211
- End Page
- 220
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/96122
- DOI
- 10.1080/08927014.2015.1022724
- ISSN
- 0892-7014
- Abstract
- Rhamnolipids were evaluated as biofouling reducing agents in this study. The permeability of the bacterial outer membrane was increased by rhamnolipids while the growth rate of Pseudomonas aeruginosa was not affected. The surface hydrophobicity was increased through the release of lipopolysaccharides and extracellular polymeric substances from the outer cell membrane. Rhamnolipids were evaluated as agents for the prevention and cleaning of biofilms. A high degree of biofilm detachment was observed when the rhamnolipids were used as a cleaning agent. In addition, effective biofilm reduction occurred when rhamnolipids were applied to various species of Gram-negative bacteria isolated from seawater samples. Biofilm reduction using rhamnolipids was comparable to commercially available surfactants. In addition, 20% of the water flux was increased after rhamnolipid treatment (300 mu g ml(-1), 6 h exposure time) in a dead-end filtration system. Rhamnolipids appear to have promise as biological agents for reducing membrane biofouling.
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