Electro-membrane Processes for Clean Water and Sustainable Energy

Dear Colleagues,

There is an increasing worldwide interest in the use of electro-membrane processes for clean water and renewable electrochemical energy harvesting and storage. These processes range from classical membrane electrolysis and electrodialysis to emerging applications, such as reverse electrodialysis, membrane capacitive deionization, redox flow batteries, microbial and enzymatic fuel cells, and ion exchange membrane (bio)reactors. This interest has inspired fundamental and applied research on improving the properties of their “key” components: The ion exchange membranes, as well as on process modelling, optimization and validation on a laboratory or industrial scale, with the ultimate goal being their practical implementation. The latter has encouraged both academia and various commercial companies in growing activities to develop tailored membrane products best suited to satisfy specific process requirements, such as low electric resistance, monovalent ion perm-selectivity, antifouling properties, hollow-fiber ion exchange membrane arrangement, as well as a number of novel hybrid processes.

This Special Issue of the journal Applied Sciences, “Electro-Membrane Processes for Clean Water and Sustainable Energy”, aims at covering recent advances in the development of these research topics.

Dr. Svetlozar G. Velizarov
Guest Editor

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