Current Trends and Future Developments on (Bio-) Membranes

Part 1 New, promising to be commercialized, membrane materials and units 1. Review on polymeric membrane materials for gas separations which are stated above the Robeson’s trade-off upper bound 2. New inorganic membranes for gas separations which are stated above the Robeson’s trade-off upper bound 3. New nonporous fillers-based hybrid membranes for gas separations and water treatment process 4. New commercial membranes for gas separations and water desalination processes Part 2 New membrane manufacturing materials 5. New metal-organic frameworks and other porous filler-based hybrid membranes for gas separation and wastewater treatment 6. Polymers of intrinsic microporosity and their applicability in pilot-scale membrane units 7. SiC porous membranes. How possible could be the production of high selective porous SiC membranes? 8. Carbon and graphene oxide materials and their potential applications in membrane separation technology 9. Solvent and material selection for greener membrane manufacturing 10. New polymeric and inorganic membrane materials for water separation Part 3 The next decade’s ideas about the future membrane technology 11. Hybrid membranes, liquid/solid, for the enhancement of membrane gas selectivity. The example of ionic liquid membrane 12. Cryogenic-membrane gas separation hybrid processes 13. New perspectives in gas separations (CO2/CH4, H2/CH4) using membranes 14. New perspectives in O2/N2 gas separation 15. Recent advances in the application of magnetic/electromagnetic field for water desalination 16. Applications of graphene oxide in reverse osmosis membranes 17. Membrane water processes and nanobubble technology