Membrane Technology: Sustainable and Revolutionary Solutions for Energy, Water, and Environment

Dear Colleagues,

Water, wastewater, and air decontamination are topics of great interest today, due to the adverse effects on the environment, human health and economy. Problems of insufficient clean portable water, the presence of different priorities and emerging contaminants, and the need for separation and recovery valuable trace materials are other factors that add up to the importance of developing advanced separation and treatment technologies. To fulfil the mission of sustainable development, it is essential to attain economic growth without unnecessary demand on the existing natural resources while imposing less stress on the environment. Therefore, a significant shift is required on the existing technologies to enhance the productivity while reducing the impact on the environment and energy costs. Membrane separation technologies are currently acknowledged as one of the most important key solutions that can contribute to sustainable development of water and gas separation technologies by enhancing productivity under low energy demand and improving environmental decontaminations. In the spirit of improving and promoting the role of membrane technologies, highlighting advances and new findings in membrane science and technology and their impact on the technology development and the environment, this Special Issue aims to attract academics, researchers, professional engineers dealing with, but not limited to the following broader topics to contribute to this Special Issue;

• Recent development in membrane material and its industrial applications;
• Application of membrane technologies in gas seperation processes;
• Develoipment in membrane technologies for water treatment: materials, processes, and applications;
• Membrane technologies and energy perspectives;
• Applications in the environment;
• Industrial applications;
• Membrane bioreactors;
• Advances in membrane bioprocesses;
• Sustainability in the water–energy nexus of the desalination processes;
• Renewable-energy-driven membrane technologies;
• Economic tradeoff the membrane technologies.

Prof. Dr. Fares AlMomani
Dr. Abdulaziz Atabani
Dr. Yasser Vasseghian
Dr. Muhammed Aslam
Guest Editors

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• Gas separations
• Water and wastewater treatment
• Desalination
• Membrane material
• Membrane bioprocess
• Specific thermal energy consumption
• Renewable energy
• Integrated membrane operations
• Water–energy nexus