Springer Membranes: Materials, Simulations, and Applications

Product Description This book describes current advances in the research on membranes and applications in industry, groundwater, and desalination processes. Topics range from synthesis of new polymers to preparation of membranes using new water treatments for effluents, graphite membranes, development of polymeric and ceramic materials for production of membranes intended to separate gases and liquids, and liquid-liquid phases. The authors include materials used to produce catalytic membranes for polymer synthesis. The book also details theoretical approaches and simulation of membrane processes and parameters and design. From the Back Cover This book describes current advances in the research on membranes and applications in industry, groundwater, and desalination processes. Topics range from synthesis of new polymers to preparation of membranes using new water treatments for effluents, graphite membranes, development of polymeric and ceramic materials for production of membranes intended to separate gases and liquids, and liquid-liquid phases. The authors include materials used to produce catalytic membranes for polymer synthesis. The book also details theoretical approaches and simulation of membrane processes and parameters and design. Describes application of membranes in industry, groundwater, and desalination processes Details simulation of membrane processes and parameters and design Includes ceramic membranes, graphite membranes, and theoretical approaches About the Author Dr. Alfredo Maciel-Cerda is at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Institute of Investigations and Matrials.  He is a founding member (2008) and president of the Mexican Society of Membrane Science and Technology (2012- 2015). Dr. Joel R. Fried is a professor and Chair at the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Louisville.  Prior to his current position, he was Professor and Chair of the Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at Florida State, Professor and Wright Brothers Endowed Chair in Nanomaterials at the University of Dayton, and Professor and Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering and a Dual Professor of Genome Sciences in the College of Medicine at the University of Cincinnati. He also has served as Director of the Polymer Research Center and was PI of a NSF-IGERT program on Biomedical Applications of Membrane Science and Technology.