Membrane Technology in Wastewater Management

About this book

Membrane technology has its origins over four decades ago, primarily in the use of electrodialysis as a desalination process. Advances in recent years, however, have brought membrane technology back into focus as a very promising approach to wastewater treatment across a vastly expanded field of applications. These proceedings survey the state of the art in membrane technology and its associated research and development. Papers cover ultrafiltration, crossflow microfiltration, electrodialysis, reverse osmosis and other novel techniques and their use in the treatment of effluents from mining, power generation, agriculture, food-processing, textiles, pulp and paper and other industrial sources, municipal wastewaters, desalination, and recycling - a quite staggering range of applications are reported in pilot or full scale.

Contents

Selected papers: Preface. Brief historical review of membrane development and membrane applications in wastewater treatment in Southern Africa, G. R. Botha et al. Dewatering sludges using a novel membrane technology, G. E. Rencken & C. A. Buc;ley. Removal of heavy metals from industrial effluent by crossflow microfiltration, R. C. Squires. Evaluation of reverse osmosis for electroplating effluent treatment, J. J. Schoeman et al. Membrane treatment strategies for red meat abattoir effluents, J. A. C. Cowan et al. Cake formation in cross-flow microfiltration systems, V. L. Pillay & C. A. Buc;ley. The use of micro/ultrafiltration for the removal of oil and suspended solids from oilfield brines, A. Zaidi et al. Development of the slurry precipitation and recycle reverse osmosis ( SPARRO ) technology for desalinating scaling mine waters, W. Pulles et al. Anaerobic biofiltration versus aerobic membrane filtration: comparison on a difficult substrate, P. Sauvegrain et al. Biological denitrification system with membrane separation for collective human excreta treatment plant, Y. Magara et al. Optimal design applied to ultrafiltration on tertiary effluent with plate and frame modules, D. Vial et al. Electrodialysis reversal at Tutuka power station, RSA - seven years' design and operating experience, M. Hughes et al. Application of electrochemical membrane processes to the treatment of aqueous effluent streams, W. J. Voortman et al. Geometrical models for porous membrane morphologies, J. P. Du Plessis. Industrial wastewater treatment with membranes - a United States perspective, P. S. Cartwright. Subject index.

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