Current Developments in Biotechnology and Bioengineering: Advanced Membrane Separation Processes for Sustainable Water and Wastewater Management – Aerobic Membrane Bioreactor Processes and Technolog -

Current Developments in Biotechnology and Bioengineering: Advanced Membrane Separation Processes for Sustainable Water and Wastewater Management – Aerobic Membrane Bioreactor Processes and Technologies consolidates up-to-date research developments in AeMBR systems for wastewater treatments in terms of membrane materials and decorations, reactor designs and fouling mechanisms. It includes discussions on developments in AeMBR research on energy efficiency and fouling control strategies, gaps, future research and application perspectives. This book is a potential resource for membrane separation and AeMBR practitioners, engineers, scientists, educators and students, and public to understand the latest developments and future prospects in membrane technology.

Provides the latest comprehensive review in various important aspects of AeMBRConsolidates scattered AeMBR information into a single easily assessible resourceProvides state-of-the-art technology development of membrane separation, AeMBR reactor designs, membrane development, advantages and challenges in operational implementation and their appropriate control strategiesPresents a comprehensive review on Quorum Quenching (QQ) fouling control strategy, QQ benefits and drawbacksProvides an excellent resource on the latest techniques in characterizing and understanding fouling mechanisms

1. Introduction to current status and recent developments in aerobic membrane bioreactors
2. Conventional process design, operation and microbiology of aerobic membrane bioreactors
3. Current challenges in aerobic membrane bioreactors
4. Role of soluble microbial products and extracellular polymeric substances in membrane fouling
5. Techniques for understand membrane fouling mechanisms
6. Advanced membrane materials and designs
7. Advanced MBR and hybrid MBR reactor configurations
8. Hybrid membrane separation processes for drinking water treatment
9. Aerobic membrane bioreactors for municipal wastewater treatment
10. Aerobic membrane bioreactors for industrial wastewater treatment
11. Osmotic membrane technologies
12. Advanced fouling control strategies
13. Quorum sensing and quorum quenching in membrane bioreactors