Membrane Engineering

Description

Modern membrane science and technology aids engineers in developing and designing more efficient and environmentally-friendly processes. The optimal material and membrane selection as well as applications in the many involved industries are provided. This work is the ideal introduction for engineers working in membrane science and applications (wastewater, desalination, adsorption, and catalysis), process engineers in separation science, biologists and biochemists, environmental scientists, and most of all students. Its multidisciplinary approach also stimulates thinking of hybrid technologies for current and future life-saving applications (artificial organs, drug delivery).

Table of Contents

1. Preface
2. Contents
3. List of contributors
4. Pressure-driven membrane processes
5. Pervaporation
6. Ion-exchange membranes
7. Membrane gas separation
8. Membrane contactors
9. Membrane reactors and membrane bioreactors
10. Preparation of synthetic (polymeric and inorganic) membranes and their characterization
11. Membrane-based operations and integrated membrane systems in fruit juice processing
12. Blue energy
13. Molecular modeling of polymer-based membrane processes
14. Index

Editor Biography

Enrico Drioli and Lidietta Giorno, University of Calabria, Rende, Italy; Francesca Macedonio, National Research Council, Rende, Italy.