Membrane and Desalination Technologies (Hardcover, 2011)

Membrane and Desalination Technologies, Table of Contents: Table of Contents Preface Contributors 1. MEMBRANE TECHNOLOGY: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE A G Tony Fane, Rong Wang, and Yue Jia 2. PREPARATION OF POLYMERIC MEMBRANES Jizhong Ren, and Rong Wang 3. ADVANCED MEMBRANE FOULING CHARACTERIZATION IN FULL-SCALE REVERSE OSMOSIS PROCESSES Lianfa Song and Kwee Guan Tay 4. MEMBRANE FILTRATION REGULATIONS AND DETERMINATION OF LOG REMOVAL VALUE (LRV) Nazih K. Shammas and Lawrence K. Wang 5. TREATMENT OF INDUSTRIAL EFFLUENTS, MUNICIPAL WASTES AND POTABLE WATER BY MEMBRANE BIOREACTORS Lawrence K. Wang and Ravinder Menon 6. TREATMENT OF FOOD INDUSTRY WASTES BY MEMBRANE FILTRATION Lawrence K. Wang, Nazih K. Shammas, Munir Cheryan, Yu-Ming Zheng and Shuai-Wen Zou 7. MEMBRANE SEPARATION: BASICS AND APPLICATIONS J. Paul Chen, Honghui Mou, Lawrence K. Wang, and Takeshi Matsuura, and Yuting Wei 8. MEMBRANE SYSTEMS PLANNING AND DESIGN Nazih K. Shammas and Lawrence K. Wang 9. ADSORPTION DESALINATION - A NOVEL METHOD Kim Choon NG, Ibrahim I. El-Sharkawy, Bidyut Baran Saha, and Anutosh Chakraborty 10. MEMBRANE PROCESSES FOR RECLAAMTION OF MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER Jianjun Qin and Kiran A Kekre 11. POTABLE WATER BIOTECHNOLOGY, MEMBRANE FILTRATION AND BIOFILTRATION Puangrat Kajitvichyanukul, Nazih K. Shammas, Yung-Tse Hung, Lawrence K. Wang, and Jirapat Ananpattarachai 12. DESALINATION OF SEAWATER BY THERMAL DISTILLATION AND ELECTRODIALYSIS TECHNOLOGIES J. Paul Chen, Lawrence K. Wang, Lei Yang, and Yu-Ming Zheng 13. DESALINATION OF SEAWATER BY REVERSE OSMOSIS J. Paul Chen, Edward S. K. Chian, Ping-Xin Sheng, K.G. Nadeeshani Nanayakkara, Lawrence K. Wang, and Yen-Peng Ting 14. MEMBRANE TECHNOLOGIES FOR POINT-OF-USE AND POINT-OF-ENTRY APPLICATIONS Puangrat Kajitvichyanukul, Yung-Tse Hung, Lawrence K. Wang 15. MEMBRANE TECHNOLOGIES FOR OIL-WATER SEPARATION Puangrat Kajitvichyanukul, Yung-Tse Hung, and Lawrence K. Wang 16. GAS-SPARGED ULTRAFILTRATION: RECENT TRENDS, APPLICATIONS AND FUTURE CHALLENGES Kaustubha Mohanty and Raja Ghosh Appendix: CONVERSION FACTORS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERS Lawrence K. Wang