Thinking the future of membranes: Perspectives for advanced and new membrane materials and manufacturing processes

SP Nunes, PZ Culfaz-Emecen, GZ Ramon… - Journal of Membrane …, 2020 - Elsevier
The state-of-the-art of membrane technology is characterized by a number of mature
applications such as sterile filtration, hemodialysis, water purification and gas separation, as …

Recent advances in polymer membranes employing non-toxic solvents and materials

D Zou, SP Nunes, IFJ Vankelecom, A Figoli… - Green Chemistry, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Polymer membranes have attracted interest in many areas, such as desalination, water
treatment, gas separation, and energy storage and generation. Membrane fabrication …

Toward the next generation of sustainable membranes from green chemistry principles

W Xie, T Li, A Tiraferri, E Drioli, A Figoli… - ACS Sustainable …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Large-scale membrane technology has been widely implemented and rapidly growing for
roughly 40 years. However, considering its entire life cycle, there are aspects being …

Strategic possibility routes of recycled PET

Damayanti, HS Wu - Polymers, 2021 - mdpi.com
The polyethylene terephthalate (PET) application has many challenges and potential due to
its sustainability. The conventional PET degradation was developed for several technologies …

Cellulose nanofiber-poly (ethylene terephthalate) nanocomposite membrane from waste materials for treatment of petroleum industry wastewater

C Bhuyan, A Konwar, P Bora, P Rajguru… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2023 - Elsevier
Petroleum industry wastewater contains high level of crude oil and other types of organic
substances that can cause immense harm to the agriculture, aquatic as well as terrestrial …

Solvent and thermally stable polymeric membranes for liquid molecular separations: Recent advances, challenges, and perspectives

SL Aristizábal, RP Lively, SP Nunes - Journal of Membrane Science, 2023 - Elsevier
The transition to a sustainable economy requires a more effective and less energy-intensive
industry. Membrane technology could augment or partially substitute classical molecular …

A critical review on heavy metals removal using ionic liquid membranes from the industrial wastewater

S Imdad, RK Dohare - Chemical Engineering and Processing-Process …, 2022 - Elsevier
Toxic heavy metals create several hazardous impacts on the environment and human lives.
Certain heavy metals like Hg, As, Pb, Cr, Cd, Zn, Co, Ni, and many others have been …

Novel polymeric additives in the preparation and modification of polymeric membranes: A comprehensive review

N Nasrollahi, L Ghalamchi, V Vatanpour… - Journal of Industrial and …, 2022 - Elsevier
One of the basic challenges in polymeric membrane fabrication is the control of pore size
and the porosity of the membranes. In this review paper, the role of polymeric additives is …

Hydrophobic thin film composite nanofiltration membranes derived solely from sustainable sources

SH Park, A Alammar, Z Fulop, BA Pulido, SP Nunes… - Green …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Membrane separations are considered to be sustainable technologies because of their
relatively low energy consumption. However, the fabrication of membranes is yet to turn …

Effective separation of surfactant-stabilized crude oil-in-water emulsions by using waste brick powder-coated membranes under corrosive conditions

G Shi, Y Shen, P Mu, Q Wang, Y Yang, S Ma, J Li - Green Chemistry, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Crude oil spill accidents that have been occurring frequently not only have been seriously
destroying the marine ecological environment and threatening human health for a long time …