Membrane desalination: from nanoscale to real world applications

Cover......Page 1
Half Title......Page 2
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Table of Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
Biography......Page 10
Editors......Page 12
Chapter 1. Introduction to Membrane Desalination......Page 16
Chapter 2. Membrane Materials Design Trends: Nanoadditives......Page 32
Chapter 3. Functionalization of Carbon-Based Additives......Page 82
Chapter 4. Nanohybrid Graphene-Based Materials for Advanced Wastewater Treatment: Adsorption and Membrane Technology......Page 106
Chapter 5. State of the Art and Perspectives in Membranes for Membrane Distillation/Membrane Crystallization......Page 140
Chapter 6. Artificial Water Channels: Toward Next-Generation Reverse Osmosis Membranes......Page 226
Chapter 7. Desalination Membranes: Characterization Techniques......Page 244
Chapter 8. Carbon Molecular Models for Desalination......Page 266
Chapter 9. Virtual Material Design: A Powerful Tool for the Development of High-Efficiency Porous Media......Page 284
Chapter 10. Estimation of Process Parameters in Industrial Membrane Manufacture Using Computational Fluid Dynamics......Page 300
Chapter 11. Towards Energy-Efficient Reverse Osmosis......Page 318
Chapter 12. Membrane Fouling and Scaling in Reverse Osmosis......Page 340
Chapter 13. Sustainable Development and Future Trends in Desalination Technology......Page 360
Terminology......Page 384
Index......Page 398