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Membrane Applications in Energy Industry

A special issue of Membranes (ISSN 2077-0375). This special issue belongs to the section "Membrane Applications".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2022) | Viewed by 5806

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Tao Zhang

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Computational Transport Phenomena Laboratory (CTPL), Physical Science and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
Interests: reservoir simulation; multi-phase flow simulation; deep learning; phase equilibrium; membrane
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Dr. Yuansi Tian

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Key Laboratory of Road Construction Technology and Equipment of Ministry of Education, School of Construction Machinery, Chang’an University, Xi’an 710064, China
Interests: experimental fluid dynamics; oil-water separation; drop impact dynamics

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Membranes have been playing an important role to alleviate the energy penalty and prohibitive cost associated with the separation, purification and conversion of petroleum and other industrial commodities amounting to a large part of energy productions worldwide. The membrane industry has been devoted to solving the large demand for water in the energy industry, pollution of the atmosphere and water environment, and the development of new energy industries, especially through the reengineering of process industries, improving the utilization of energy and resources, and reducing the emission of environmental pollutants.

Despite a number of scientific and technological advances that have been witnessed in the numerical and experimental studies for the application of membranes in the energy industry, uncertainties and knowledge gaps still exist. For example, the accurate modelling of fluid flow and heat transfer penetrating the separation membrane is still under development and the efficient simulation of multiphase/multi-physics fluid flow and heat transfer in the separator containing membrane is still expected. The effect of temperature and pressure on the membrane structure and effectiveness in practical petrochemical operation environments is not clear yet, while the corrosion caused by the production liquid with a strong acid or alkali property is still a big challenge. A wider range of membrane applications have been identified as a response to current new trends in the energy industry, for example, membrane filtration used in the carbon dioxide capture and sequestration, which is connected to the conventional energy consumption facilities to reduce carbon emission.

This Special Issue seeks to include research by engineers and scientists in the aforementioned fields or those who are interdisciplinary, to highlight the current developments of membrane application in energy industry, both in theory and methods, to exchange the latest research ideas, and to promote further collaborations in the community. We invite investigators to make both practical and theoretical contributions to the literature in this special collection, and both literature reviews and original research papers are welcomed. 

Dr. Tao Zhang
Dr. Yuansi Tian
Guest Editors

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Membranes is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2700 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • oil-water separation using membranes
  • membranes in solar energy
  • desalination using membranes
  • wastewater treatment using membranes
  • CO2 capture and purification using membranes

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Study of the Seawater Desalination Performance by Electrodialysis
by Jihong Shi, Liang Gong, Tao Zhang and Shuyu Sun
Membranes 2022, 12(8), 767; https://doi.org/10.3390/membranes12080767 - 5 Aug 2022
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The global scarcity of freshwater resources has greatly contributed to the development of desalination technologies, in which electrodialysis desalination is one of the most widely used and highly regarded methods. In this work, the first step was to design and assemble a experiment [...] Read more.
The global scarcity of freshwater resources has greatly contributed to the development of desalination technologies, in which electrodialysis desalination is one of the most widely used and highly regarded methods. In this work, the first step was to design and assemble a experiment module for electrodialysis desalination. The ion removal efficiency and single membrane mass transfer flux of electrodialysis desalination were investigated. The results show that the desalination performance of the module is improved by increasing the voltage gradient, increasing the concentration of seawater and electrolyte and decreasing the membrane surface flux and that the optimum operating conditions for the module at 24 V operating voltage are feedstock concentration of 35 g/L, electrolyte concentration of 1.42 g/L which and system flow rate of 15 L/h. The results of the study will help to better investigate electrodialysis desalination technology. Full article
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Effects of Membrane Structure on Oil–Water Separation by Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics
by Jie Liu, Xiaoping Xie, Qingbang Meng and Shuyu Sun
Membranes 2022, 12(4), 387; https://doi.org/10.3390/membranes12040387 - 31 Mar 2022
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Membrane has been considered an effective tool for oil–water separation. By using the smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method, the effects of membrane structure on fluid separation were studied thoroughly in this paper. The oil–water two-phase fluid was generated as particles, while the membrane [...] Read more.
Membrane has been considered an effective tool for oil–water separation. By using the smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method, the effects of membrane structure on fluid separation were studied thoroughly in this paper. The oil–water two-phase fluid was generated as particles, while the membrane was built with solid particles, which was able to select the fluid particles. In general, the developed SPH method in this paper can evaluate separation performance with different membrane shapes, pore size distributions, membrane thickness and fluid properties. We suggest to the industry a potential approach to promote separation based on our simulation results, including adding the external force in the selected direction and demulsification for the bulk phase liquid particles. The triangular membrane performs well with the conditions for various parameters, as a result of its insensitivity to inhibiting factors. The effectiveness and robustness of the proposed SPH scheme was validated by a number of numerical experiments, and we assessed the optimized membrane structure and operation manners in order to improve separation efficiency and long-term safety. Full article
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