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Polymeric Membranes in Wastewater Treatment

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Water covers around 71% of the earth’s surface; however, only 2.5% is fresh water available for consumption. Rapid industrialization and increasing human activities, such as the use of fertilizers, mining, and pesticides, add many harmful organic and inorganic pollutants into the water, which endangers fresh water resources and the ecological environment. Various conventional methods for wastewater treatment, including chemical precipitation, physical adsorption, ion exchange, and membrane separation have been present since long times. Among these methods, polymeric membrane separation has become the main focus of attention over the past couple of decades for wastewater treatment, owing to an ease of operation, low energy consumption, and their unique and proficient separation of contaminants which yields high-quality treated water. In addition, these membranes can be used at an increased range of temperature conditions and the recyclability of these membranes is also very promising. Polymeric membranes for wastewater treatment are generally separated into four major categories, based on their performance, characteristics, pore size, and specific separation qualities. These four categories are microfiltration (MF), ultrafiltration (UF), nanofiltration (NF), and reverse osmosis (RO). This book chapter will provide a comprehensive summary for readers to understand the progress in the area of wastewater treatment using polymeric membranes and to highlight the recent advances in polymeric membranes and background study of wastewater treatment. In addition, the potential benefits and challenges of utilizing polymeric membranes for wastewater treatment will be briefly discussed.

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    Adil Majeed Rather, Yang Xu, Robert Lewis Dupont & **aoguang Wang

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Rather, A.M., Xu, Y., Dupont, R.L., Wang, X. (2022). Polymeric Membranes in Wastewater Treatment. In: Pandey, L.M., Hasan, A. (eds) Nanoscale Engineering of Biomaterials: Properties and Applications . Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-3667-7_17

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