Current Trends and Future Developments on (Bio-) Membranes: Membrane Desalination Systems: The Next Generation

Membrane Desalination Systems: The Next Generation explores the recent developments and future perspectives in the area of membrane desalination systems. It includes thee fundamental principles, different types of smart nano-structured materials, energy and brine disposal issues, and design approach and environment impact of membrane desalination technology in detail. This book provides an extensive review of literature in the area of membranes for desalination systems of low energy consumption. It also discusses membrane modelling for desalination system validation to achieve high water recovery, low energy and near-Zero Liquid Discharge.

Outlines the use of the potential of Salinity Gradient Power from brines for a low-energy energy desalination conceptFocuses on the development of integrated membrane systems to achieve the goal of Near-Zero-Liquid-DischargeSumarizes the latest advancement in nanosciences for creating membranes with advanced properties and functions

1. Graphene and CNT Technology 2. Carbon-based membranes for Desalination 3. The Impact of Termoplasmonics in Membrane Technology 4. Electrospun Nanofibrous Membranes for Desalination 5. Full-Scale membrane Distillation Systems and Performance Improvment Through Modeling: A Review 6. Membrane Wetting in Membrane Distilation 7. Membrane Crystallization 8. A Review: Desalinating by Forward Osmosis 9. Wind Aided Intensified Evaporation (WAIV): An Environmentally Sustainable Method for Brine Managemen 10. Membrane Desalination in Shale Gas Industry: Applications and Perspectives 11. Fundamentals of Pressure Retarded Osmosis 12. Mathematical Modeling for Electromembrane Processes 13. Salinity Gradient Power Reverse Electrodialysis 14. Integrating Pressure Retarded Osmosis and Membrane Distillation 15. Forward Osmosis, Reverse Electrodialysis and Membrane Distillation: New Integration Options in Pretreatment and Posttreatment Mmebrane Desalination Process 16. The Next Generation Energy Efficient Membrane Desalination Systen wutg Advanced Key Technologies: Mega-Ton Water System 17. The REAPower Project: Power Production from Saline Waters and Concentrated Brines 18. Membrane Operations for Minerals Recovery from Seawater