Membrane Bioreactor Technology: An Innovative Water Treatment Process
Developments in Wastewater Treatment Research and Processes
- 1st Edition - November 1, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editors: Ranjana Das, Chiranjib Bhattacharjee, Maulin P. Shah
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 3 3 6 6 1 - 4
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 3 3 6 6 2 - 1
Membrane Bioreactor Technology: An Innovative Water Treatment Process covers the basic principles of membrane bioreactor technology and advances of membrane bioreactor techno… Read more
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Request a sales quoteMembrane Bioreactor Technology: An Innovative Water Treatment Process covers the basic principles of membrane bioreactor technology and advances of membrane bioreactor technology to meet the challenge of safe water supply. The book discusses concrete theoretical aspects of membrane bioreactors, several design aspects, as well as operational aspects. It covers wide variety of membrane bioreactor topics like filtration characteristics, membrane modification techniques, membrane material transfiguration, transformation of fouling characteristics and strategies of fouling mitigation and control. It also covers practical aspects and operational hitches as well as maintenance of membrane bioreactors. The representative cases and exemplifications of membrane bioreactor technology makes the book an indispensable resource helping readers to understand the tuning features of membrane bioreactor technology with emerging pollutant characteristics.
- Provides basic principles and advances of membrane bioreactor technology to meet the challenge of safe water supply
- Covers a wide variety of membrane bioreactor topics including filtration characteristics, membrane modification techniques, membrane material transfiguration, transformation of fouling characteristics and strategies of fouling mitigation and control
- Uses representative cases and exemplifications of membrane bioreactor technology to understand and modulate membrane bioreactor technology with emerging water pollutant characteristics
Chemical, environmental and process engineers dealing with water and wastewater treatment; Researchers and scientists dealing with effluent treatment in food processing, paper and pulp, pharmaceutical, oil and gas, surfactant, and personal care and home care product industry; Environmental and natural resources researchers, filtration specialists, water company managers, and consultants dealing with water and wastewater treatment
1 Membrane bioreactor fundamentals, the membrane and biological aspects (Basic principle of membrane bioreactor, membrane characteristics and characteristics of biological species) 2 The design, operation, and maintenance of Membrane bioreactor in waste water treatment (Membrane bioreactor performance based on design aspect, operational variation, and maintenance requirement during waste water treatment) 3 Membrane bioreactor facility design principles and concepts (Design criteria of membrane bioreactor based on the targeted contaminants) 4 Membrane bioreactor filtration characteristics, membrane modification, membrane material transfiguration and transformation of fouling characteristics (Effect of membrane material on filtration characteristics with minimisation of fouling characteristics) 5 Commercial Membrane bioreactor products and their applications for water and wastewater treatment (Review on commercial membrane bioreactors for waste water treatment) 6 Membrane bioreactor in Municipal waste water treatment (Review and case studies on membrane bioreactor application for municipal waste water treatment) 7 Current membrane bioreactor practices and design (Review on advanced membrane bioreactor practices) 8 Application of membrane bioreactor in pharmaceutical industry (Review and case studies to explore membrane bioreactor application in pharmaceutical industry) 9 Application of membrane bioreactor in paper and pulp industry (Review and case studies to explore membrane bioreactor application in paper and pulp industry) 10 Application of membrane bioreactor in food processing industry (Review and case studies to explore membrane bioreactor application in food processing industry) 11 Application of membrane bioreactor in petroleum oil industry (Review and case studies to explore membrane bioreactor application in petroleum oil industry) 12 Application of membrane bioreactor in micro and nano plastic removal from water (Review on potential of membrane bioreactor application in micro and nano plastic removal) 13 Membrane bioreactor for removal of geogenic contaminants from ground water (Review and case studies to explore membrane bioreactor application in ground water treatment) 14 Application of Membrane bioreactor for pesticide contaminants (Review and case studies to explore membrane bioreactor application to remove pesticide residue from effluent) 15 Application of Membrane bioreactor for personal care products (Review and case studies to explore membrane bioreactor application to remove personal care rich effluent)
- Edition: 1
- Published: November 1, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443336614
- eBook ISBN: 9780443336621
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Ranjana Das
Ranjana Das completed her Ph.D in Chemical Technology from Calcutta University in 2009 and presently associated with Chemical Engineering Department as Associate Professor. She is Life member of Indian Institute of Chemical Engineering, Oil Technologists’ Association of India and Life member of Indian Science Congress Association. Presently she is acting as Project Investigator of two National projects. Her Research interest is in membrane separation process, solid waste and waste water treatment, nanomaterial synthesis and application.
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Chiranjib Bhattacharjee
Chiranjib Bhattacharjee is serving in the faculty position at Chemical Engineering Department, Jadavpur University for 30 years, and presently acting as Pro Vice Chancellor of Jadavpur University. He is also acting as President of West Bengal council of Higher Secondary Education from 16th August 2021 on. Prof. Bhattacharjee has delivered many invited lectures at different places at National & International levels. He was involved in collaborative research with University of Montpellier, France and University of Melbourne, Australia. He was also involved in Indo-Korean, as well as in European Union (EU) sponsored project as Principal Investigator/ Coordinator. He is involved in several project activities as Principal Investigator/ Coordinator, funded by AICTE, DST, DBT, and UGC. He has more than 10 awards to his credit. He is life member of Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers, The Institution of Engineers (India) and Indian Science Congress Association. His research interest is in Environmental Remediation, Bioremediation and advanced separation techniques, waste utilization and management, recovery of value from waste.
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Maulin P. Shah
Dr. Maulin P. Shah is an active researcher and microbial biotechnologist with diverse research interest. His primary interest is the environment, the quality of our living resources and the ways that bacteria can help to manage and degrade toxic wastes and restore environmental health. Consequently, His work has been focused to assess the impact of industrial pollution on microbial diversity of wastewater following cultivation dependant and cultivation independent analysis.
Affiliations and expertise
Environmental Microbiology Consultant, Gujarat, India