1st Edition

Membrane Technologies for Heavy Metal Removal from Water

    360 Pages 88 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    This book offers lucid treatment of fundamental concepts related to potential applications and prospects of different membranes for wastewater decontamination by removing heavy metals. Divided into four sections, it provides an overview of different sources of water contamination, their impacts on human health and the environment, and compares traditional methods used to nullify these impacts. Further, it covers different mature membrane technologies such as polymeric membranes, poly-ceramic membranes, carbon-based membranes and many more, followed by pertinent case studies.

    Features:

    • Focuses on the removal of heavy metals using membrane-based technologies
    • Discusses pertinent criteria to select suitable membranes
    • Includes feasibility studies and applications of different mature and emerging membranes
    • Describes heavy metals' occurrence and transport in an aqueous system with an overview of the adverse effects
    • Reviews challenges and opportunities associated with using different membranes

    This book is aimed at graduate students and researchers in materials science, water engineering and wastewater treatment.

    Section 1: Introduction

    1 Sources of water contamination by heavy metals
    Ahmad Hussaini Jagaba, Ibrahim Mohammed Lawal, Abdullahi Haruna Birniwa, Augustine Chioma Affam, Abdullahi Kilaco Usman, Usman Bala Soja, Dalhatu Saleh, Abdulmalik Hussein, Azmatullah Noor and Nura Shehu Aliyu Yaro
    2 Recent trends of promising membrane technologies for heavy metal removal from water and wastewater
    Zainul Abideen, Maria Hanif, Zirwa Sarwa, Irfan Aziz, Neelma Munir and Maria Hasnaian

    3 Health risks associated with the presence of heavy metals in water

    Sayed Muhammad Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari, Liloma Shah, Sana Raza, Muhammad Asif Nawaz and Muhsin Jamal
    4 Nanotoxicology of metal oxides and their impacts on the environment

    Izza Taufiq, Fatima Tu Zahra and Ayesha Siddiqa

    5 Theory of membranes: Types of membranes, working principle, and comparison

    Aamir Khan and Sher Jamal Khan

    Section 2: Membranes for Heavy Metals Removal
    6 Biopolymeric Membranes for heavy metal removal from water and wastewater

    Amna Siddique, Urwa Mahmood, Ahsan Nazir, Hafiz Affan Abid, Tanveer Hussain, and Sharjeel Abid
    7 Bioremediation of heavy metals using the symbiosis of Hydrophytes and Metal-Resistant Bacteria
    Hera Naheed Khan and Muhammad Faisal
    8 Comparison of different membrane technologies for Boron removal from seawater
    Noura Najid, Sanaa Kouzbour, Bouchaib Gourich, Mohamed Chaker Necibi, and Azzedine Elmidaoui
    9 Development and characterization of metal-chelating membranes fabricated using semi-interpenetrating polymer networks for water treatment applications
    Haad Bessbousse, Hamid Barkouch, Meryem Amar, Ouafa Tahiri Alaoui, Asma Zouitine, Fatna Zaakour, Marion Bellier, Francois Perreault, Laurent Lebrun and Jean-Francois Verchere
    10 Graphene and graphene oxide-based nanomaterials as a promising tool for the mitigation of heavy metals from Water and Wastewater
    Zohaib Abbas, Iqra Shahid, Shafaqat Ali, Muhammad Nihal Naseer, Muhammad Awais Khalid, Shamas Tabraiz, Ihsan Elahi Zaheer and Muhammad Zeeshan
    11 Heavy metals removal from wastewater via photocatalytic membrane
    Shahnaz Ghasemi
    12 Ionic liquid membrane technology for heavy metal removal from aqueous effluents
    M.J. Salar-Garcia, S. Sanchez-Segado, V.M. Ortiz-Martinez, C. Godinez-Seoane, and L.J. Lozano-Blanco
    13 Life cycle assessment of membranes for removing heavy metals from water and wastewater
    Sisem Ektirici, Mitra Jalilzade, Adil Denizli and Deniz Türkmen
    14 Nanofiber membranes for the hexavalent chromium removal and reduction
    Naveed Ahmed Qambrani, Sorth Ansari, Abdul Majeed Pirzada, Muhammad Rizwan, Zeeshan Khatri, Rasool Bux Mahar and Sheeraz Ahmed Memon
    15 Nanoparticles for the Removal of Heavy Metals from Wastewater
    Sayed Muhammad Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari, Liloma Shah, Sana Raza, Robina Khan and Muhsin Jamal
    16 Polymeric membranes for water and wastewater treatment
    Maria Wasim, Aneela Sabir, Muhammad Shafiq and Rafi Ullah Khan
    17 Role of Bacterial Cell Transmembranes as a Biopolymer to Remediate Mercury in Industrial Wastewater
    Aatif Amin, Mohsin Gulzar Barq and Sunbul Rasheed
    18 A review on the effect of ionic/zwitterionic materials on membrane performance for heavy metal removal application
    Syed Ibrahim Gnani Peer Mohamed and Arun M. Isloor

    Biography

    Juhana Jaafar is the Associate Professor in the School of Chemical and Energy Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. She is also the Deputy Director of Advanced Membrane Technology Research Centre (AMTEC), a Higher Institute Centre of Excellent (HICOE) rewarded by the Ministry of Education Malaysia. Her outstanding outputs in research are evident from her receiving distinguished awards at National and International levels including World Class Professor award 2021 under the ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology of Indonesia, Grand Awards in Seoul International Invention Fair (SIIF 2019) and many more. She is also active in writing for scientific publication in high impact factor in international and national journals. To date, she has published more than 350 papers in ISI-indexed journals with H-index of 34.

    Asad A. Zaidi is Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Hamdard University-Pakistan. He has also served as head of undergraduate program, assistant professor of thermal sciences and research supervisor at the National University of Sciences and Technology-Pakistan. He is an experienced researcher with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry. He is skilled in materials, renewable energy and low-cost water production technologies. His research interest spans over thermal modelling, energy system analysis and auditing, renewable energy resources assessment, energy-water-waste nexus, and water-biomass- wind and waves energies technology. He is an author or co-author of more than 65 papers in international refereed journals and conferences. He has also given several invited/plenary talks at international conferences.

    Muhammad Nihal Naseer is a Mechanical Engineer graduated from the National University of Sciences & Technology (NUST)-Pakistan. He started his research career in 2018 from Laboratory of Applied Sciences at NUST-Pakistan. His research interests lie in the area of thermal sciences, energy-water-waste-food nexus and nanotechnology. In 2019, he was research assistant in the NANOCAT research centre of University of Malaya-Malaysia. He has more than 10 publications on his credit published in peer review journals and conferences. He has published articles in reputed journals of the field such as Energy Reports. In addition, he has filed two innovations for patent and edited a book, Utilization of Thermal Potential of Abandoned Wells.