Ceramic Membranes For Wastewater Treatment

The well thought out designed and implemented use of membranes can decrease capital.

Ceramic membranes for wastewater treatment.

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. Nowadays integrated microfiltration mf membrane systems treatment is becoming widely popular due to its feasibility process reliability commercial availability modularity relative insensitivity in case of wastewater of various industrial sources as well as raw water treatment and lower operating costs. 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.

Industrial wastewater and wastewaters that is hard to treat difficult wastewater there are some requirements such as chemical agents high temperature and the presence of. 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. The typical applications for ceramic uf membranes are oily wastewater treatment beverage and juice purification biological fermentation treatment and organic solvents filtration.

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. 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. 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. In this review article the key types of ceramic membranes that are applied in water and wastewater treatment are described and analysed.

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. Common ceramic membranes made of alumina zirconia titania silica and zeolite are described and their advantages and disadvantages are compared and discussed.