Membrane Contactor Technology Water Treatment, Food Processing, Gas Separation, and Carbon Capture

An eye-opening exploration of membrane contactors from a group of industry leaders

In Membrane Contactor Technology: Water Treatment, Food Processing, Gas Separation, and Carbon Capture, an expert team of researchers delivers an up-to-date and insightful explanation of membrane contactor technology, including transport phenomena, design aspects, and diverse process applications. The book also includes explorations of membrane synthesis, process, and module design, as well as rarely discussed process modeling and simulation techniques.

The authors discuss the technical and economic aspects of this increasingly important technology and examine the geometry, flow, energy and mass transport, and design aspects of membrane contactor modules. They also cover a wide range of application opportunities for this technology, from the materials sciences to process engineering.

Membrane Contactor Technology also includes:

• A thorough introduction to the membrane contactor extraction process, including dispersion-free membrane extraction processes and supported liquid membrane processes
• Comprehensive explorations of membrane transport theory, including discussions of diffusional mass and heat transfer modeling, as well as numerical modeling
• In-depth examinations of module configuration and geometry, including design and flow configuration
• Practical discussions of modes or operation, including membrane distillation, osmotic evaporation, and forward osmosis

Perfect for process engineers, biotechnologists, water chemists, and membrane scientists, Membrane Contactor Technology also belongs in the libraries of chemical engineers, polymer chemists, and chemists working in the environmental industry.

Dr. Mashallah Rezekazemi serves as professor of the Faculty of Chemical and Materials Engineering at the Shahrood University of Technology since 2016. He shares his name in top 1% of Highly Cited Researcher by Web of Science (ESI). His research is mainly on membrane-based processes for energy-efficient desalination, CO2 capture, gas separation, and wastewater reuse, sustainable production of enriched gas stream, water and energy generation with the engineered membrane, environmental applications and implications of nanomaterials, and water and sanitation in developing countries. He has co-authored more than 100 highly cited journal publications, conference articles and book chapters. He has received notable recognition like the Khwarizmi Youth Award from the Iranian Research Organization for Science and Technology (IROST) in 2012, and Outstanding Young Researcher Award in Chemical Engineering from Academy of Sciences of Iran.


Dr. Mohammad Younas is the Department Head of Chemical Engineering at University of Engineering & Technology, Peshawar, Pakistan He finished his education at European Membrane Institute, CNRS at Universite de Montpellier 2, Montpellier France. Prof. Younas supervises many PhD/Master students in Pakistan as well as in collaborative programs in China and France. His research focus is on modelling and simulation of membrane contactors in various applications especially in nexus of Food-Energy-Water.He also provides consultancy and guidance to food technologists and industry professionals to develop the fruit juice concentration plants. Prof. Younas a visiting professor at Tiangong University, Tianjin China. He works in collaboration with the University of Toledo, OH, USA. He has been awarded position of visiting professor under Talented Young Scientist Program (TYSP) for the year 2019-20 from the Government of P.R. China.

Dr.Xianhui Li, is serving the Technical University of Denmark as Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellow in the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering. has published more than 30 research papers and 2 scholarly book chapters, including 16 first author SCI journal papers, on chemical engineering, membrane separation and process in high-quality, high-impact international journals in the category of Chemical Engineering. His research focused on Membrane Separation Technology in Water Treatment. The quality of his research has been recognized through awards like Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship, Guangdong-Technion Postdoctoral Fellowship, the outstanding youth achievement in Beijing Membrane Society.

Dr. Waheed-ur-Rehman is currently working as Senior Engineer in Pakistan Council of Scientific & Industrial Research Laboratories Complex, Peshawar, Pakistan. He has undertaken various research projects in the field of membrane technology with particular emphasis on the concentration of fruit juices through osmotic distillation. He has evaluated the performance of different membrane contactors during the osmotic distillation. He is currently working on the application of electrospun hierarchical fibrous PH-PET composite membrane in the osmotic distillation of fruit juices.

Alam Khan is a research associate at the department of chemical engineering at university of engineering and technology, Peshawar Pakistan under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Mohammad Younas. Mr. Khan assists Prof. Younas in review of articles and research work related to membrane technology.

1.INTRODUCTION

2.MEMBRANE CONTACTOR EXTRACTION PROCESS

2.1.Dispersion free membrane extraction process
2.2.Supported liquid membrane (SLM) extraction process
2.3.Emulsion Liquid membrane (ELM) extraction process

3.MEMBRANE TRANSPORT THEORY: OPERATIONAL PRINCIPLE
3.1 Diffusional mass and heat transfer modeling
3.2 Numerical modeling

4.MODULE CONFIGURATION/GEOMETRY

4.1.Design configuration
4.2.Flow configuration

5.MODE OF OPERATION

5.1.Membrane distillation
5.2.Osmotic evaporation
5.3.Forward osmosis
5.4.Pressure retarded osmosis
5.5.Sweep gas

6.APPLICATIONS OF MC TECHNOLOGY

6.1.Liquid-liquid contactor
Organic acids, food, petroleum, organic contaminants and other organic material extraction
Hydrometallurgy/heavy metals

6.2.Liquid-gas contactor
CO2 and petrochemical gas streams like VOCs, SO2, H2S etc removal
Air dehumidification

6.3.Gas-Gas contactor
CO2 capture from coal fired power plants

7.MARKET PROSPECTS OF MCs

8.CONCLUSION AND OUTLOOK