1st Edition

Application of Nanotechnology in Membranes for Water Treatment

366 Pages
by CRC Press

366 Pages
by CRC Press

366 Pages
by CRC Press

The book focuses on Application of Nanotechnology in Membranes for Water Treatment but not only provides a series of innovative solutions for water reclamation through advanced membrane technology but also serves as a medium to promote international cooperation and networking for the development of advanced membrane technology for Universal well-being and to achieve the common goal of supplying... Read more

Chapter 1: Introduction
Alberto Figoli, Jan Hoinkis, Sacide Altinkaya, Jochen Bundschuh



Section I: Membrane development and characterization
Chapter 2: Fabrication and application areas of nanocomposite flat-sheet membranes
Chapter 3: Polymerizable microemulsion membranes: from basic to applications
Chapter 4: The use of layer-by-layer technique in the fabrication of thin film composite membranes for water treatment
Chapter 5: Stimulus-responsive nano-structured bio-hybrid membranes reactors in water treatment
Chapter 6: Study of carbon nanotubes’ embedment into porous polymeric membranes for waste-water treatment
Chapter 7: Effects of the solvent ratio on carbon nanotube blended polymeric membranes
Chapter 8: Photocatalytic activity and synthesis procedures of TiO2 nanoparticles for potential applications in membranes
Chapter 9: Application of nano-sized TiO2 in membrane technology
Chapter 10: Nanosized metal oxides (NMOs) and polyoxometalates (POMs) for antibacterial water treatment
Chapter 11: Atomic Force Microscopy investigations of filtration membranes



Section II: Modeling and simulation
Chapter 12: Molecular simulations of water and ion transport through nanoporous membranes
Chapter 13: Carbon nanotubes used in polymer membranes for wastewater purification: an ab-initio theoretical study



Section III: Membrane processes
Chapter 14: Recovery of bioactive compounds in citrus wastewater by membrane operations
Chapter 15: Integration of membrane bioreactor (MBR) treatment with nanofiltration (NF) and reverse osmosis (RO) processes for wastewater reclamation and reuse

Biography

Alberto Figoli, Jan Hoinkis, Sacide Alsoy Altinkaya, Jochen Bundschuh