Membrane Fouling in Water/Wastewater Treatment and Separation Processes: Control and Optimization
A special issue of Membranes (ISSN 2077-0375). This special issue belongs to the section "Membrane Processing and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2021) | Viewed by 3325
Special Issue Editors
Interests: transport in porous media; CO2 storage; mineral scaling; microchannels; pore surface wettability; water treatment; waste water treatment; muds characterization; characterization of particle suspension
Interests: membrane technologies; wastewater treatment; ultrafiltration; nanofiltration; reverse osmosis; isolation of phenolics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Fouling strongly affects membranes’ performance and life. Membranes’ wide use in water and wastewater treatment or in separation processes makes research on fouling control and membrane’s performance optimization of high importance.
Foulants such as organics, suspended particles, bio colloids or minerals reduce membranes’ performance and often lead to early membranes’ replacement, increasing process maintenance costs. Several control strategies such as membranes modification using coatings, adjustment of feed’s particles concentration, membranes’ wettability control, control of operational parameters and so on are developed and optimized after characterization of fouling and scaling layers.
This Special Issue aims at compiling innovative contributions on membranes’ use and operation conditions for long-term water, wastewater treatment or separation processes. Studies on fouling layers characterization and control, anti-fouling or fouling mitigation strategies, membranes wettability effect and control that may optimize membranes efficiencies and performance are welcome.
Dr. Varvara Sygouni
Prof. Dr. Christakis Paraskeva
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Water, wastewater treatment
- Separation processes
- Membranes fouling, scaling characterization
- Minerals
- Foulants
- Fouling mitigation
- Membrane’s wettability effect and control
- Control
- Optimization
- Membranes performance
