Handbook of Membrane Separations (3^rd Ed.) Chemical, Pharmaceutical, Food, and Biotechnological Applications

The third edition of the Handbook of Membrane Separations: Chemical, Pharmaceutical, Food, and Biotechnological Applications provides a comprehensive discussion of membrane applications. Fully updated to include the latest advancements in membrane science and technology, it is a one-of-its-kind overview of the existing literature. This fully illustrated handbook is written by experts and professionals in membrane applications from around the world.

Key Features:

• Includes entirely new chapters on organic solvent-resistant nanofiltration, membrane condensers, membrane-reactors in hydrogen production, membrane materials for haemodialysis, and integrated membrane distillation
• Covers the full spectrum of membrane technology and its advancements
• Explores membrane applications in a range of fields, from biotechnological and food processing to industrial waste management and environmental engineering

This book will appeal to both newcomers to membrane science as well as engineers and scientists looking to expand their knowledge on upcoming advancements in the field.

About the Editors

List of Contributors

Foreword

Preface

I MEMBRANE APPLICATIONS IN CHEMICAL, BIOCHEMICAL, FOOD

PROCESSING AND PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES

1. Membranes applications in chemical biochemical, food

processing and pharmaceutical industries: An Introduction

Anil K Pabby, S. R. Wickrmasinghe and A.M. Sastre

2. Reverse Osmosis Membrane

Dipak Rana, Takeshi Matsuura, Mohd Azraai Kassim,

Ahmad Fauzi Ismail

3. Organic solvent resistant nanofiltratin

Parag R. Nemade , Olviya S. Gonsalves, P. S. V. Vaishnavi

4. Membrane condensers for air purification and water recovery

M. Frappa, F. Macedonio, E. Drioli

5. Membranes in gas separation

May-Britt Hägg, Liyuan Deng and Zhongde Dai

6. Techniques to enhance performance of liquid-phase membrane

processes by improved control of concentration polarization

S. Chang and Anthony G. Fane

7. Current challenges in reducing membrane fouling

M.F.A. Goosen

8. Membranes Processes and Developments for Biochemical and

Pharmaceutical Separations

Chidambaram T. and S R Wickrmasinghe

9. Expansive applications of chitosan and its derivatives in membrane

technology

P. Satishkumar, Arun M. Isloor and Ramin Farnood

10. A review on Diverse Membrane Materials for Hemodialysis

Pallavi K.C, Arun M. Isloor, and

Sowmya M. Kumar, Abdul Wahab Mohammad

11. Role of Membranes and Membrane-Reactor in Hydrogen Production

Nitish Mittal, Dhaval Bhandari

12. Advances and applications of ionic liquids for the extraction of

organics and metal ions

Adrián Hernández-Fernández, V.M. Ortiz-Martínez, A.P. de los Ríos,

F.J. Hernández-Fernández, S. Sánchez-Segado

13. Membrane applications in dairy science

George Q. Chen and Sandra E. Kentish

14. Metal-Organic Framework Containing Polymeric Membranes for

Fuel Cells

Shivarama B, Arun M. Isloor , Ch.Sn. Murthy and Balakrishna

Prabhu, Ahmad Fauzi Ismail

15. Recent developments on supported Pd membranes for hydrogen

separation and membrane reactors

David Alfredo Pacheco Tanaka and Fausto Gallucci

II MEMBRANE APPLICATIONS IN INDUSTRIAL WASTE

MANAGEMENT (INCLUDING NUCLEAR), ENVIRONMENTAL

ENGINEERING AND FUTURE TRENDS IN MEMBRANE SCIENCE

16 Membranes applications in industrial waste

management (including nuclear), environmental engineering and

future trends in membrane science: Introduction

Anil K. Pabby, S. R. Wickramasinghe and A.M. Sastre

17 Integrated membrane distillation approaches for sustainable desalination

and water/resource recovery

V Sangeetha and Noel Jacob Kaleekkal

18. Advancement in Membrane Methods for Liquid Radioactive Waste

Processing: Current Opportunities, Challenges and the Global World

Scenario

Grażyna Zakrzewska-Kołtuniewicz

19. Polymer Inclusion Membranes

Spas D. Kolev, M. Inês G. S. Almeida and Robert W. Cattrall

20. Electromembrane processes: Recent advances, applications, and

future perspectives

Madupathi Madhumala, Tallam Aarti and Sundergopal Sridhar

21. Membrane applications for valorization routes of industrial brines and

mining waters: examples of resource recovery schemes

J. Lopez, M. Reig, J.L. Cortina

22. Concentration-driven membrane processes for the recovery of

valuable compounds from industrial wastes

Eugenio Bringas, M. Fresnedo San Román, Ana M. Urtiaga,

Inmaculada Ortiz

23. Salts recovery from brines through Membrane Crystallization

Processes

M. Frappa, F. Alessandro, E. Drioli, F. Macedonio

24. A sustainable approach for dye removal from industrial effluent

using membrane based techniques-Recent advances and future

perspectives

Pallavi Mahajan-Tatpate, Vikrant Gaikwad, Anil K Pabby

25. Membrane bioreactors for waste water treatment: Recent

advances, challenges and future perspectives

Nethravathi, Arun M. Isloor and Ahmad Fauzi Ismail

26. Process Intensification in water treatment using membrane technology

Enrico Drioli, Francesca Macedonio, Elena Tocci

Dr. Anil Kumar Pabby is recently retired from one of the pioneer research centers of India, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Tarapur, Mumbai, Maharashtra, as Scientific Officer (Senior Scientist) and associated with Department of Atomic Energy activities including research and development work under a DAE program. He did his Ph.D. from University of Mumbai, India and subsequently carried out his postdoctoral work at Technical university of Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain. Dr. Pabby has more than 190 publications to his credit including 20 chapters and two patent on non-dispersive membrane technology. He was invited to join as an associate editor of International journal ‘Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry’ during 2002-2005. He has also served as consultant to IAEA, Vienna, Austria for developing technical book volume on "Application of membrane technologies for liquid radioactive waste processing". Dr. Pabby has taken a leading role in publishing "Handbook of membrane separation: Chemical, pharmaceutical, food and biotechnological applications’ in July 2008 by CRC Press, New York, USA. The second edition of this book is published in April 2015. Dr. Pabby has been a regular reviewer for several national and international journals and also serving in editorial board of few reputed international journals. His research interest includes membrane based solvent extraction, liquid membrane and its modeling aspects, pressure driven membrane processes, macrocyclic compounds etc. Dr Pabby has been elected as a Fellow of the Maharashtra Academy of Sciences (FMASc) in 2003 for his outstanding contribution in membrane science and technology. Also, he has been awarded with prestigious Tarun Datta Memorial award (instituted by Indian Association Nuclear Chemist and Allied Scientist ) for his contribution in Nuclear and Radiochemistry for the year 2005. He is appointed as Associate Professor and Ph.D. guide and also M.Tech guide, Homi Bhabha National Institute, M