Membrane Separation Techniques: Advances, Challenges, and Future Avenues

Dear Colleagues,

The separation of substances from one another comprises a main sector of the industry engineering field, such as distillation, extraction, absorption, crystallization, drying, etc., and has substantial potential to play an increasingly important role in the application of separation technologies and innovations. Technological assessments have found wide application at a laboratory scale and beyond to address the plant, energy consumption and fouling problems, where the nexus between the technical feasibility and economic benefits was examined, aiming to create integrated systems of industrial scale. Advances and benefits from using emerging separation modules implemented in a porous membrane are expected in terms of device performance, and the underlying principles by which the various techniques may be treated are discussed in detail for readers to extrapolate the information to their own needs. This Special Issue of Membranes on “Membrane Separation Techniques” is dedicated to providing a forum that provides comprehensive coverage on the state-of-the-art and study of advanced applications in separation technology, delivers suitable large-scale design separation processes in various industrial applications and explores up-to-date techniques and findings. Both original research articles and reviews are welcomed. All invited submissions for the Special Issue will go through the normal peer-review process.

Prof. Dr. Chii-Dong Ho
Guest Editor

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