Volume II: Membrane and Membrane Reactor Operations in Chemical Engineering

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue is a continuation of the previous successful Special Issue “Membrane and Membrane Reactors Operations in Chemical Engineering” in the MDPI journal ChemEngineering.

The principles of the process intensification strategy, applied to chemical engineering, can lead to the development and re-design of new processes that are more compact, efficient, and useful for better exploiting renewable materials, as well as lower energy consumption and reduced plant volume. Membrane technology contributes to the valorization of these principles and, in the last few years, the potentialities of membrane operations have been largely recognized.

With their intrinsic behavior of efficiency and operational simplicity, high selectivity and permeability, compatibility between different membrane operations in integrated systems, low energetic requirement, and good stability under operating conditions and environment compatibility, membrane operations represent an interesting and alternative approach in chemical engineering processes. Membrane gas separation, membrane distillation, membrane crystallizers, membrane contactors, membrane strippers and scrubbers, and, in particular, membrane reactors and membrane bioreactors in their various configurations and functionalities, are growing in parallel to the molecular separations realized with pressure-driven membrane operations.

Within this context, this Special Issue aims at compiling relevant contributions showing the potentialities of membrane and membrane reactor operations in chemical engineering based on the application of the process intensification principles. Modeling and experimental manuscripts, as well as reviews dealing with the most significative processes in chemical engineering performed via membrane and membrane reactors operations, are particularly welcome.

Dr. Adolfo Iulianelli
Guest Editor

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• membrane gas separation
• membrane reactors and bioreactors
• membrane crystallization
• membrane distillation and waste water treatment
• membrane emulsifier
• membrane operations in food applications