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Membrane Technology for Water Purification

  • 1st Edition - December 3, 2025
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Sabu Thomas, Frank Lipnizki, Viswanathan Swaminathan, Hanna J. Maria, Jince Thomas
  • Language: English

Membrane Technology for Water Purification contains real-life applications and methods to facilitate deep understanding of the use of membrane technologies in water purifi… Read more

Description

Membrane Technology for Water Purification contains real-life applications and methods to facilitate deep understanding of the use of membrane technologies in water purification. The book is a comprehensive guide arranged in three parts to enable both students and researchers to learn about the most recent updates in materials science to clean up water pollutants. Membrane systems are finding increasing application worldwide in purification and the editors are lead experts in the field.

Key features

  • Covers the latest information on membrane technology for water purification
  • Includes practical applications with a strong interdisciplinary focus
  • Edited by experts in the field with leading publications and knowledge of water treatment

Readership

Undergraduate and graduate students

Table of contents

PART 1: Fundamentals of Water Purification Membranes

1. Introduction
a. Wastewater
b. Various Treatment Methods

2. Membranes In Water Purification

3. Types Of Membranes
a. Membrane Parameters and Structure
b. Membrane Configurations and Their Comparisons

4. Fouling
a. Introduction
b. Mechanics of Fouling
c. Modeling of Fouling
d. Fouling in Osmosis
e. Fouling in Microfiltration
f. Fouling in Ultrafiltration
g. Fouling Reduction and Prevention Methods

5. Membrane Cleaning

6. Water Quality Using Membranes

7. Latest Advancements in Membrane Technology

8. Membrane Bioreactors

PART 2: Water Purification Membrane Processes and Techniques

1. Materials

2. Membrane Fabrication

3. Membrane Systems

4. Membrane Characterizations.

5. Advanced Membranes Inspired by Cell Membranes What are cell membranes? Function and working of cell membranes? Components that inspired today’s membranes. Advanced membranes. Future advances in membranes could be mimicked from cell membranes.

6. Application Characteristics of Membranes Used in Different Fields
a. Wastewater Treatment and Re-use
b. Resource Recovery
c. Seawater Desalination
d. Food And Medicine Manufacturing
e. Drinking Water

7. Theory Modeling And Simulation

8. Anti-Fouling Membranes

9. Challenges In Water Purification Membranes

Part 3: Applications of Water Purification Membranes

1. Operation Of Membrane Water Systems, Process Control, And Maintenance.

2. The State of Art in Research in Water Purification Membranes

3. Membranes For Municipal Wastewater

4. Membranes For Industrial Effluent Wastewater

5. Membranes For Medical and Pharmacological Industries

6. Membranes For Agricultural Wastewater

7. Membranes For Desalination

8. Membranes For Resource Recovery

9. Membrane Technology for Drinking Water Purification

10. Life-Cycle Analysis of Membranes

11. Lab To Industry

12. Energy Requirements in Various Types of Membranes in Water Purification.

13. Cost-Benefit Analysis

14. List Of Commercial Membrane Products company, country, efficiency, material, configuration, year

15. Current Technology Drawbacks

16. Circular Economy and Sustainability

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: December 3, 2025
  • Language: English

About the editors

ST

Sabu Thomas

Sabu Thomas is currently an Emeritus Professor of Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India. He is the former Vice Chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi University and a Senior Professor of Christ University, Bangalore, India, as well as a visiting Professor at the Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Johannesburg, South Africa, Department of Chemical Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, and an Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Polymer and Process Engineering, IIT Roorkee, India.

Affiliations and expertise
Emeritus Professor, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India

FL

Frank Lipnizki

Dr. Frank Lipnizki is a Professor in the Department of Process and Life Science Engineering at Lund University, Sweden. His research focuses on membrane separation processes for applications in food processing, biotechnology, pulp and paper industries, biorefineries, and water treatment. He specializes in the integration and optimization of membrane technologies within hybrid process systems, with particular emphasis on membrane fouling, cleaning strategies, and process efficiency. His work also involves the development and improvement of membranes and membrane modules tailored for specific industrial applications, contributing to sustainable and resource-efficient process engineering solutions.

Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Division of Chemical Engineering, Department of Process and Life Science Engineering, Lund University, Sweden

VS

Viswanathan Swaminathan

Dr Viswanathan Swaminathan is the founder and Executive Director of Memfill Tech Pvt Ltd, Indigenous Hollow Fiber Membrane Manufacturer. This industry has solutions for desalination, effluent treatment, sewage treatment and silica removal and wastewater resource recovery using hollow fiber membranes.
Affiliations and expertise
Founder and Executive Director, Memfill Tech Pvt Ltd, Singapore

HM

Hanna J. Maria

Hanna J. Maria is a Senior Researcher at the School of Energy Materials and the International and Inter University Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Mahatma Gandhi University, India. Her research focusses on natural rubber composites and their blends, thermoplastic composites, lignin, nanocellulose, bionanocomposites, nanocellulose, rubber-based composites and nanocomposites.

Affiliations and expertise
Senior Researcher, School of Energy Materials, Mahatma Gandhi University — Kottayam, Kerala, India

JT

Jince Thomas

Dr. Jince Thomas is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto, Canada. He previously served as an Assistant Professor (on contract) at the International and Inter- University Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India, where he was later awarded the Chief Minister’s Nava Kerala Postdoctoral Fellowship. He earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Mahatma Gandhi University. Dr. Thomas has contributed to a collaborative Indo- Malaysian research program with Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia, and has held visiting research positions at Ariel University in Israel and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA. He is the author and co- author of numerous peer- reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and edited volumes. His research focuses on polymeric membranes, electrolytes, polymer nanocomposites, and electrochemical energy systems, with a strong focus on computational simulations to support materials design and performance evaluation

Affiliations and expertise
Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto, Canada

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