Nutrient Removal and Membrane Performance of an Algae Membrane Photobioreactor in Urban Wastewater Regeneration Díaz Mendoza, Verónica Antiñolo Bermúdez, Laura Poyatos Capilla, José Manuel Almecija Rodríguez, María Carmen Muñio Martínez, María Del Mar Martín Pascual, Jaime Fouling Ultrafiltration membrane Microalgae Photobioreactor Wastewater reuse The increase in industry and population, together with the need for wastewater reuse, makes it necessary to implement new technologies in the circular economy framework. The aim of this research was to evaluate the quality of the effluent of an algae membrane photobioreactor for the treatment of the effluent of an urban wastewater treatment plant, to characterise the ultrafiltration membranes, to study the effectiveness of a proposed cleaning protocol, and to analyse the performance of the photobioreactor. The photobioreactor operated under two days of hydraulic retention times feed with the effluent from the Los Vados wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) (Granada, Spain). The microalgae community in the photobioreactor grew according to the pseudo-second-order model. The effluent obtained could be reused for different uses of diverse quality with the removal of total nitrogen and phosphorus of 56.3% and 64.27%, respectively. The fouling of the polyvinylidene difluoride ultrafiltration membrane after 80 days of operation was slight, increasing the total membrane resistance by approximately 22%. Moreover, the higher temperature of the medium was, the lower intrinsic resistance of the membrane. A total of 100% recovery of the membrane was obtained in the two-phase cleaning protocol, with 42% and 58%, respectively. 2022-11-29T12:11:38Z 2022-11-29T12:11:38Z 2022-10-10 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Díaz, V... [et al.]. Nutrient Removal and Membrane Performance of an Algae Membrane Photobioreactor in Urban Wastewater Regeneration. Membranes 2022, 12, 982. [https://doi.org/10.3390/membranes12100982] https://hdl.handle.net/10481/78177 10.3390/membranes12100982 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Atribución 4.0 Internacional MDPI