Membranes in Water and Wastewater Treatment

Dear Colleagues,

Since its first industrial introduction for desalination purposes, membrane production has continued to grow, and the variety of membranes available is expanding. In the water industry, membrane techniques are increasingly being replacing conventional techniques such as clarification and filtration, ion exchange softening and deonization, evaporation, organic removal by sorption, and biological wastewater treatment. Membrane techniques demonstrate technical capabilities and efficiency due to their low chemical and power consumption, high product water quality, and small footprint. The distinguishing quality of membrane techniques, however, is their constant improvement that enables them to conquer more and more application fields: new developments provide dramatic a recovery increase, low energy consumption, reduced scaling and fouling, increase in concentrations of chemical brines, and harvesting of their valuable components.

This issue aims to collect new examples of membrane developments that demonstrate breakthroughs in industrial and drinking water applications, as well as wastewater treatment. We welcome new research results in desalination, membrane module design, scaling and fouling control, wastewater treatment and post-treatment, wastewater reuse, MBR applications, concentrate and brine reduction and harvesting, landfill leachate treatment, water recycling, and the development of new wasteless technologies.

Dr. Alexei G. Pervov
Dr. Nikolay Makisha
Guest Editors

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