Membrane Distillation and Crystallization
A special issue of Membranes (ISSN 2077-0375). This special issue belongs to the section "Membrane Engineering and Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2020) | Viewed by 382
Special Issue Editors
Interests: membrane distillation; membrane crystallization; desalination and wastewater treatment; crystal design; resource recovery; turning waste into resources; zero-liquid discharge
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The UN Sustainability Development Goals focus on transforming the world to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all. Based on this logic, membrane engineering is already a key tool and might play an even more important role in future in addressing some of the specific goals including clean water and sanitation, affordable and clean energy, responsible consumption and production, climate actions, and many of the other goals of the UN sustainability development agenda.
In the past decade, novel membrane-based technologies such as membrane distillation (MD), membrane crystallization, and their related operations have evolved and are being suggested for desalination, wastewater treatment, and the food and pharmaceutical industry. These processes are able to treat high-concentration solutions, which are challenging for other traditional membrane operations, and they can produce fresh water and be operated using waste heat or alternative energy sources. As a type of crystallization technology, they have several advantages in contrast to conventional crystallizers in terms of high purity, controlled kinetics, and crystal morphology.
This Special Issue will focus on highlighting the various aspects of membrane distillation and crystallization, including membrane synthesis, module design, modeling and simulations, and their applications from lab-scale to commercial scale.
We are happy to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue on Membrane Distillation and Crystallization, and we welcome both original contributions and reviews related to these topics.
Dr. Cejna Anna Quist-Jensen
Dr. Aamer Ali
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- Membrane distillation
- Membrane crystallization
- Membrane operations integrated with crystallization
- Resource recovery
- Membrane synthesis
- Module design
- Modeling and simulation
- Test and validation
