Membrane filtration has been considered as an promising harvesting technology in the fields of microalgal biorefinery to produce biofuels and valuable chemicals from microalgal biomass. For developing the effective membrane-based harvesting process to produce highly concentrated biomass, membrane fouling should be controlled because it leads to not only reduced filtration rate but also insufficient reachable concentration of harvested biomass for downstream process. For that, a dynamic filtration using a rotating disk was evaluated in this study, efficiently generating high shear flow near the membrane surface by an independently moving part. It was demonstrated to achieve feasible filtration performance even under high biomass concentration with complete biomass recovery and moderate energy consumption observed.

원통형 회전 역삼투법은 높은 전단력과 유체의 불안정성을 결합시켜 막오염을 감소시키는 동적 여과방법이다. 이 논문은, 회전여과의 물리적 특성, 물질전달과 농도분극 현상, 이론적 및 실험적 해석, 사례연구 등 회전역삼투법에 대한 최근의 연구를 요약해서 보여준다.