Advance in Thermal-Driven Membrane Processes
A special issue of Membranes (ISSN 2077-0375). This special issue belongs to the section "Membrane Processing and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2023) | Viewed by 3719
Special Issue Editors
Interests: biorefinery; biofuels recovery; separation techniques, in particular membrane processes; process intensification
Interests: separation membranes; membrane distillation; pervaporation; wastewater treatment and near-zero liquid discharge
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Membrane-based technology represents an emerging strategy for energy-efficient liquid separation. Temperature differences across membranes drive thermal-driven membrane processes, including membrane distillation (MD) and pervaporation (PV). There are several configurations for (i) MD used in saline water desalination, wastewater volume reduction and resource recovery, e.g., direct contact MD, air gap MD, sweeping gas MD and vacuum MD, and (ii) PV used in organic solvent dehydration, hypersaline brine desalination and bioalcohol recovery, e.g., organophilic PV and hydrophilic PV. Thermal-driven membrane processes exhibit the unique advantages, where their driving force is not strongly influenced by the feed concentration/composition, and the operation conditions are mild without high pressures/temperatures. Hence, they are imperative to achieve superior industrial separation processes and reduce the capital and energy cost.
This Special Issue aims to publish recent advances in thermal-driven membrane processes with both membrane distillation and pervaporation for various liquid separation. The topics of interests include, but are not limited to, fabrication, modification, simulation and characterization of membrane materials (including polymeric membranes, inorganic membranes and organic/inorganic hybrid membranes) and parameter optimization, energy calculation, intensification of separation processes, etc.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but not limited to) the following:
- wastewater treatment;
- seawater desalination;
- resource recovery;
- solvent dehydration;
- biofuels recovery;
- water purification.
Prof. Dr. Peiyong Qin
Prof. Dr. Xinmiao Zhang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- membrane distillation
- pervaporation
- separation membranes
- seawater desalination
- solvent dehydration
- resource recovery
- process intensification
- energy calculation