Advanced Membranes for Water Treatment
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Wastewater Treatment and Reuse".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2016) | Viewed by 80518
Special Issue Editors
Interests: desalination; water recycling; membrane integrity monitoring; microfiltration/ultrafiltration
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Interests: chemical engineering; membrane technology; separation technology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Globally, changes in climate and increasing urbanisation and population growth are putting strain on traditional water resources. As a result, poorer quality water sources, such as wastewater, seawater, and stormwater, are being used as water sources for municipal applications. Membranes are ideally suited to the processing of such waters, as they are able to reliably produce high quality water from low-grade water supplies, with failures usually associated with membrane fouling and loss of production. As such, water quality is generally maintained during fouling processes and health risks are kept low.
The importance of membranes to water treatment is demonstrated by their dominance as the technology of choice for desalination, water recycling and filtration of surface waters. Membrane bioreactors are also cost competitive at smaller scale and for treatment of industrial wastewaters, and the increasing application of membranes is demonstrated by their predicted annual growth rate being >9%.
This “Advanced Membranes for Water Treatment” Special Issue will bring together articles on new developments in the manufacture and use of membranes in water treatment applications. The special issue is requesting articles on all aspects of membranes, including manuscripts on membrane fouling, fabrication, characterisation, on-line monitoring, new membrane processes, such as forward osmosis and membrane distillation, and membrane applications.
Prof. Dr. Stephen Gray
Prof. Dr. Hideto Matsuyama
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- membranes,
- reverse osmosis,
- nanofiltration,
- ultrafiltration,
- microfiltration,
- membrane bioreactors,
- forward osmosis,
- membrane distillation,
- membrane fouling,
- membrane characterisation,
- water recycling,
- desalination
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