Modeling and Simulation in Membranes and Membrane Processes
A special issue of Membranes (ISSN 2077-0375). This special issue belongs to the section "Membrane Physics and Theory".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2021) | Viewed by 4077
Special Issue Editors
Interests: membrane; water treatment; wastewater treatment; process engineering; cfd; fsi; economic assessment
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The membrane separation process is an extensive research area with diversified disciplines and applications. From the first discovery of dialysis in the 19th century, through the revolutionary invention of the anisotropic membrane by Sydney Loeb and S. Souirajan in the 1960s, to state-of-the-art membrane technology, such as nanocomposite membrane and salinity gradient energy, membrane technology has made remarkable progress throughout history since the membrane was first discovered. However, the most important aspect is that there are countless challenges and hindrances for any simple idea to achieve commercial maturity. For process or technological development at the laboratory scale, proper understanding of the mechanism and formulation of systematic parameters has to be preceded to ensure successful implementation at the commercial level. In this regard, modeling and simulation are powerful tools that cannot be missed in a course of developments towards practical implementation.
There is a broad range of models, including traditional models based on experimental physicochemical correlation and mass balance, thermodynamic models, computational fluid dynamics (CFD)-based models, and machine learning based models, that have gained popularity over the recent years. Each modeling approach has its own insights on and contributions to research on mass transport through membranes, fluid dynamics in membrane modules, and process scale-up in various membrane processes.
In this Special Issue, we welcome research articles, communications, and critical/comprehensive reviews from a wide range of membrane research areas, with a preference on the titled area: “Modeling and Simulation in Membranes and Membrane Processes”.
Dr. Chulmin Lee
Dr. Sung Ho Chae
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Membrane process
- Process simulation
- Reverse osmosis
- Ultrafiltration
- Nanofiltration
- Microfiltration
- Forward osmosis
- Membrane distillation
- Pressure-retarded osmosis
- Reversed electrodialysis
- Computational fluid dynamics
- Artificial intelligence
- Machine learning
- Electrodeionization
- Membrane capacitive deionization
- Ultrapure water processes
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