Ceramic Membranes For Wastewater Treatment

Ceramic membranes have been at the epicenter of recent advances and research in membrane development and further growth in the area of water and wastewater treatment with the scope being focused in results being geared towards creating a greater membrane area without compromising mechanical strength.

Ceramic membranes for wastewater treatment.

Bandyopadhyay ceramic membrane division csir central glass and ceramic research institute. Highly efficient and economic treatment of wastewater sludges and wastewaters in one way is a challenging issue in the water treatment field. Mbrs that are employ ceramic membranes are more reliable for wastewater treatment and water quality after treatment and improve the lifetime of the filtration process. Common ceramic membranes made of alumina zirconia titania silica and zeolite are described and their advantages and disadvantages are compared and discussed.

The typical applications for ceramic uf membranes are oily wastewater treatment beverage and juice purification biological fermentation treatment and organic solvents filtration. To fabricate uf membranes with ultrafine pore sizes 2 10 nm the sol gel technique starting from the colloidal or polymeric sol was introduced and developed. A critical review on current status and future perspectives of ceramic based membranes for water and wastewater treatment is given. Herein we present a waste to resource strategy for rational fabrication of low cost ceramic membranes which simultaneously addresses the treatment of heavy metal laden sludges and the separation of oil in water o w emulsions.

Filtration behavior fouling and prevention mohammed wali hakami 1 abdullah alkhudhiri 2 sirhan al batty 1 myrto panagiota zacharof 3 jon maddy 3 and nidal hilal 4 1 chemical engineering technology department jubail industrial college jubail industrial city 31961 saudi arabia. Ceramic membrane is extensively used in water and wastewater treatment which include oil field injection water paper industry waste water landfill leachate palm oil wastewater textil and printing industry wastewater oily wastewater titanium dioxide wastewater fermentation chemical industry wastewater desalination seawater treatment and degreasing liquid treatment and other aspects. The well thought out designed and implemented use of membranes can decrease capital. Membranes review ceramic microfiltration membranes in wastewater treatment.

Common ceramic membranes including those made of alumina zirconia titania silica and zeolite are presented first where their advantages and disadvantages are compared and discussed. Ceramic membranes for wastewater treatment p.