
Antibiofouling Membranes for Water and Wastewater Treatment
Principles and Applications
- 1st Edition - July 4, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Authors: Zhiwei Wang, Ruobin Dai, Xuesong Li
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 3 8 3 1 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 3 8 3 2 - 4
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Request a sales quoteAntibiofouling Membranes for Water and Wastewater Treatment: Principles and Applications covers most recent advances, challenges, and industrial applications of antibiofouling membranes to help in reducing cost and increasing sustainability of long term-filtration performance of membranes in water and wastewater treatment. This book will provide a compact source of relevant and timely information on antibiofouling membranes and will be of great interest to scientists, engineers, industry R&D personnel, and graduate students engaged in the development, engineering scale-up, and applications of antibiofouling membranes, as well as other readers who are interested in microfiltration, membrane bioreactor, ultrafiltration, nanofiltration, reverse osmosis, and related topics.
- Covers scientific and engineering principles of antibiofouling membranes for water and wastewater treatment
- Unravels the structure-preparation-property-application relationship of antibiofouling membranes
- Provides advanced design strategies of antibiofouling membrane materials
- Summarizes and critically discusses antibiofouling membrane materials based on biocidal nanomaterials and quaternary ammonium compounds
- Focuses on the state-of-the-art applications of antibiofouling membranes for water and wastewater treatment
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Introduction to antibiofouling membranes: current status and recent developments
- Abstract
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.2 Basic principles of antibiofouling
- 1.3 Development of antibiofouling membranes
- 1.4 Emerging techniques for the design and fabrication of antibiofouling membranes
- 1.5 Applications of antibiofouling membranes
- 1.6 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 2. Fundamentals and principles of antibiofouling membranes
- Abstract
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Formation and development of membrane biofouling
- 2.3 Factors affecting membrane biofouling
- 2.4 Membrane biofouling control strategies
- 2.5 Basic principle of antibiofouling membranes
- 2.6 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 3. Preparation and characterization of antibiofouling membranes
- Abstract
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Preparation of antibiofouling membranes
- 3.3 Characterization of antibiofouling membranes
- 3.4 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 4. Design of antibiofouling membranes based on antiadhesion mechanism
- Abstract
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Key factors affecting the attachment of bacteria to the membrane surface
- 4.3 Design strategies of membrane based on antiadhesion mechanism
- 4.4 Evaluation and comparison of different strategies
- 4.5 Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 5. Design of biocidal nanomaterials-based antibiofouling membranes
- Abstract
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Design strategies for antibiofouling membranes based on different biocidal nanomaterials
- 5.3 Performance comparison of antibiofouling membranes based on different biocidal nanomaterials
- 5.4 Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 6. Quaternary ammonium compounds modified membranes
- Abstract
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 Basic information on quaternary ammonium compound–based antibiofouling membranes
- 6.3 Constructions of quaternary ammonium compounds–based antibiofouling membranes
- 6.4 Membrane performance of quaternary ammonium compounds–based antibiofouling membranes
- 6.5 Conclusions and perspectives
- References
- Chapter 7. Applications of antibiofouling membranes for water and wastewater treatment
- Abstract
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 Historical evolution of the application of antibiofouling membrane
- 7.3 Key factors affecting biofouling development in water and wastewater treatment
- 7.2 Evaluation and comparison of antibiofouling membranes in water and wastewater treatment
- 7.3 Future perspective
- 7.4 Conclusions
- List of abbreviations
- References
- Chapter 8. Challenges and future perspectives
- Abstract
- 8.1 Challenges in antibiofouling membrane research
- 8.2 Future perspectives in antibiofouling membrane research
- References
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: July 4, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 350
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443138317
- eBook ISBN: 9780443138324
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