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Record W4412635095 · doi:10.1021/acsestwater.5c00535

Purifying Anaerobically Treated Municipal Secondary Wastewater Effluent by a Reverse Osmosis-Based Potable Reuse Treatment Train

2025· article· en· W4412635095 on OpenAlex
Jessica A. MacDonald, Benjamin Najm, Tzahi Y. Cath, William A. Mitch

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fundA Canadian funder is recorded on the work.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueACS ES&T Water · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicWater Treatment and Disinfection
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaBureau of Reclamation
KeywordsReverse osmosisReuseWastewater reuseEffluentWastewaterPotable waterEnvironmental scienceWaste managementOsmosisEnvironmental engineeringChemistryEngineeringMembrane

Abstract

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As a pretreatment to potable reuse trains, anaerobic secondary treatment could reduce the energy demand and footprint compared to aerobic secondary treatment. Long-term pilot tests linked a reverse osmosis (RO)-based potable reuse treatment system to a pilot-scale staged anaerobic fluidized membrane bioreactor (SAF-MBR). A membrane-aerated bioreactor removed sulfide in SAF-MBR effluent prior to RO. The RO operated for ∼120 days at 15 LMH and 67–83% water recovery, with a final feed pressure during each cycle of ∼9–10 bar. When the final pressure increased to ∼12 bar, chemical cleaning reestablished membrane performance, and a membrane autopsy indicated reversible fouling by biomass and phosphate-based minerals. MS2 bacteriophage spiking tests indicated at least 5–6-log removal each by RO and UV/H 2 O 2 advanced oxidation process (AOP) treatment at ∼730 mJ/cm 2 average UV fluence. A 1,100 mJ/cm 2 average UV fluence met treatment goals for 1,4-dioxane and indicators for other organic contaminants. Halogenated DBPs in the chlorinated final effluent were ∼5-fold lower than potable reuse trains fed by aerobic secondary effluent. N -Nitrosodimethylamine was well below California’s 10 ng/L Notification Limit. An operating cost comparison indicated that a potable reuse train fed by SAF-MBR effluent ($0.69/m 3 ) is cost-competitive to that fed by aerobic secondary effluent ($0.69/m 3 ).

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.109
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.008
GPT teacher head0.220
Teacher spread0.212 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it