Committee Report: Membrane processes

This review focuses on membrane technology research needs in the context of drinking water treatment. It considers practical issues like membrane piloting, scale-up, residuals discharge, and costs, as well as more fundamental issues like membrane polymers, surface characterization, biofouling, and m...

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Published inJournal - American Water Works Association Vol. 90; no. 6; pp. 91 - 105
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Denver, CO American Water Works Association 01.06.1998
Subjects
Adsorption
Applied sciences
Biofilms
Cleaning
Costs
Discharge
Drinking Water
Drinking water and swimming-pool water. Desalination
Electrodialysis
Electrodialysis Reversal
Exact sciences and technology
Fouling
Ions
Mass Spectrometry
Mass Transfer
Membranes
Microfiltration
Microscopy
Nanofiltration
P branes
Pollution
Polymers
Potable water
Reactors
Reverse Osmosis
Solutes
String theory
Surface water
Ultrafiltration
Water Quality
Water Treatment
Water treatment and pollution
Membrane separation
Drinking water treatment
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Summary:This review focuses on membrane technology research needs in the context of drinking water treatment. It considers practical issues like membrane piloting, scale-up, residuals discharge, and costs, as well as more fundamental issues like membrane polymers, surface characterization, biofouling, and modeling of the transport of dissolved and particulate species in membrane systems. It is concluded that because the period since this committee's last report has been a fertile one for research, many new questions have arisen on both applied and fundamental issues in the development, use, and understanding of membrane processes in drinking water treatment
ISSN:0003-150X
1551-8833
DOI:10.1002/j.1551-8833.1998.tb08457.x