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Integration of Membrane Processes for Optimal Wastewater Management

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Wastewater generation poses a serious challenging problem in both industrial and domestic sectors worldwide. As a result, many proposals have been raised from academia and industry to cope with the problem. Recently, the wastewater management focuses on minimization of water consumption, recycle, reuse, and regeneration of wastewater streams as an effective mitigation of the problem. Integrated membrane systems with conventional processes have been shown to be an attractive option for the evaluation of wastewater treatment to achieve desired water quality. This chapter presents optimal integration of membrane processes for wastewater treatment through superstructure optimization. State space representation presents a systematic approach to construct rich flow sheet alternatives of enviable processes in a concise manner. These alternatives accordingly can be evaluated simultaneously by the derivation of a mathematical programming model. Mixed integer nonlinear program (MINLP) models are presented for two cases of integrated membrane processes for the treatment of wastewater streams.

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  1. Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

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  2. Department of Chemical Engineering, Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE

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Saif, Y., Elkamel, A. (2013). Integration of Membrane Processes for Optimal Wastewater Management. In: Sharma, S., Sanghi, R. (eds) Wastewater Reuse and Management. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4942-9_2

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