Integrated Membrane Operations

Alfredo Cassano

• 12 december 2013
• 9783110284676

Samenvatting:

Membranes are the most effective separation processes with practically unlimited selectivity of separation and seem to be very promising and profitable in designing of the innovative Clean Technologies, which will become inevitably necessary on the long run. This book deals with this topic.

This comprehensive reference work describes in an instructive manner the combination of different membrane operations such as enzyme membrane reactors (EMR's), microfiltration (MF), ultrafiltration (UF), reverse osmosis (RO), nanofiltration (NF) and osmotic distillation (OD) is studied in order to identify their synergistic effects on the optimization of processes in agro-food productions (fruit juices, wines, milk and vegetable beverages) and wastewater treatments within the process intensification strategy. The introduction to integrated membrane operations is followed by applications in the several industries of the food sector, such as valorization of food processing streams, biocatalytic membrane reactors, and membrane emulsification.