Design and Development of Membrane Bioreactors
A special issue of Membranes (ISSN 2077-0375). This special issue belongs to the section "Membrane Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 4191
Special Issue Editor
Interests: membrane separation processes for water reuse and desalination; membrane bioreactor; biological wastewater treatment process; microbial fuel cell sensor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Membrane bioreactor (MBR) has been well accepted and adopted for wastewater treatment and reuse over the last few decades. Notwithstansing its advantages, R&D to resolve challenges such as alleviating membrane fouling and reduction in energy consumption has continued to be pursued by academic and the industry by improving the design of MBR system, optimzing the operation of MBR, developing better membranes, etc. To achieve energy and nutrients recovery, anaerobic membrane bioreactor for both domestic and industrial wastewater has received much attention lately. In additon, researchers have also explored novel alternative MBR design and fouling control such as forward osmosis MBR, membrane distillation bioreactor, membrane aeration bioreactor, quarum queching, etc.
This Special Issue on “Design and Development of Membrane Bioreactors” of the journal Membranes seeks contributions to assess the state-of-the-art and future developments of membrane bioreactor. Topics include, but are not limited to, fouling control, process control and optimization, energy reduction, new membrane material, membrane modification, module and reactor design, novel applications, novel alternative MBR, membrane aeration, anaerobic MBR, energy and nutrient recovery, demonstration efforts and industrial exploitation. Authors are invited to submit their latest results; both original papers and reviews are welcome.
Prof. Dr. How Yong Ng
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Membrane fouling and control
- Energy optimization
- MBR for nutrient removal
- Membrane fabrication
- Anti-fouling membrane
- Membrane aeration
- Alternate membrane bioreactor processes for wastewater treatment and reuse
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