Membrane Technologies for Heavy Metal Removal from Water

This book offers lucid treatment of fundamental concepts related to potential applications and prospects of different membranes for wastewater decontamination by removing heavy metals. Divided into four sections, it provides an overview of different sources of water contamination, their impacts on human health and the environment, and compares traditional methods used to nullify these impacts. Further, it covers different mature membrane technologies such as polymeric membranes, poly-ceramic membranes, carbon-based membranes and many more, followed by pertinent case studies.

Features:

• Focuses on the removal of heavy metals using membrane-based technologies
• Discusses pertinent criteria to select suitable membranes
• Includes feasibility studies and applications of different mature and emerging membranes
• Describes heavy metals' occurrence and transport in an aqueous system with an overview of the adverse effects
• Reviews challenges and opportunities associated with using different membranes

This book is aimed at graduate students and researchers in materials science, water engineering and wastewater treatment.

Juhana Jaafar is the Associate Professor in the School of Chemical and Energy Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. She is also the Deputy Director of Advanced Membrane Technology Research Centre (AMTEC), a Higher Institute Centre of Excellent (HICOE) rewarded by the Ministry of Education Malaysia. Her outstanding outputs in research are evident from her receiving distinguished awards at National and International levels including World Class Professor award 2021 under the ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology of Indonesia, Grand Awards in Seoul International Invention Fair (SIIF 2019) and many more. She is also active in writing for scientific publication in high impact factor in international and national journals. To date, she has published more than 350 papers in ISI-indexed journals with H-index of 34.

Asad A. Zaidi is Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Hamdard University-Pakistan. He has also served as head of undergraduate program, assistant professor of thermal sciences and research supervisor at the National University of Sciences and Technology-Pakistan. He is an experienced researcher with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry. He is skilled in materials, renewable energy and low-cost water production technologies. His research interest spans over thermal modelling, energy system analysis and auditing, renewable energy resources assessment, energy-water-waste nexus, and water-biomass- wind and waves energies technology. He is an author or co-author of more than 65 papers in international refereed journals and conferences. He has also given several invited/plenary talks at international conferences.

Muhammad Nihal Naseer is a Mechanical Engineer graduated from the National University of Sciences & Technology (NUST)-Pakistan. He started his research career in 2018 from Laboratory of Applied Sciences at NUST-Pakistan. His research interests lie in the area of thermal sciences, energy-water-waste-food nexus and nanotechnology. In 2019, he was research assistant in the NANOCAT research centre of University of Malaya-Malaysia. He has more than 10 publications on his credit published in peer review journals and conferences. He has published articles in reputed journals of the field such as Energy Reports. In addition, he has filed two innovations for patent and edited a book, Utilization of Thermal Potential of Abandoned Wells.