Fouling in Liquid Separation Membrane Technologies
A special issue of Membranes (ISSN 2077-0375).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2018)
Special Issue Editors
Interests: chemical engineering; process development and control; process intensification; wastewater treatment processes; nanoparticles production; membrane processes; membrane fouling; photocatalysis
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Interests: water and wastewater treatment; advanced oxidation processes and advanced separation by ion exchange and membrane technology
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Dear Colleagues,
I kindly invite you to submit your research works, concerning fouling observed during liquid separation by membranes, to this Special Issue of Membranes.
The problem of membrane fouling is one of the major drawbacks of membrane technologies, and it appears that fouling inhibition, avoidance and/or control may be a suitable route to make membrane processes more reliable in the future. This Special Issue encourages the submission of general works on membrane fouling, and, in particular:
- Case studies on membrane systems characterized by a constant or sudden permeate flux reduction as a function of time
- Review of historical process data from membrane systems that exhibit a reduction of performances as a function of time due to fouling
- Studies of fouling formation and growth on membrane surfaces
- Development of statistic and/or mathematical models of the ongoing fouling on membrane systems as a function of time
- Critical flux, threshold flux, sustainable flux, boundary flux studies
- Advanced control systems for membrane processes for fouling formation inhibition
- Membrane surface modification studies to inhibit fouling formation
- Biofouling
- Development of new devices, equipment, modules or process design for fouling inhibition purposes
- Cleaning and/or washing procedures to eliminate fouling formation on membranes
Membranes is an open access peer-reviewed international scientific journal indexed on Scopus: I hope that you might join this opportunity for publication of your work.
Prof. Dr. Marco Stoller
Prof. Dr. Javier Miguel Ochando Pulido
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- fouling
- microfiltration
- ultrafiltration
- nanofiltration
- reverse osmosis
- separation.
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