Our author, Bas, is a process engineer in the water industry, experienced in working with membrane treatment, as well as different water filtration systems. He has worked for a startup for a number of years, building and testing membrane treatment systems for water reclamation from sewage using Forward Osmosis. His academic background is in Mechanical Engineering and Chemical Engineering / Sustainability Engineering. Bas started writing chemical engineering related articles in 2022, when he realised that there was a lot of conflicting and incorrect information on the internet, after having struggled for years trying to find suitable academic publications and other information online.