Membrane Separation in Aqueous Environment

Membrane processes are effective for recovering valuable products, purifying aqueous process streams, reducing feed volumes, simplifying wastewater treatment, and making further separation more attractive.
The treatment of aqueous process streams by conventional thermal separation technologies requires a high energy input, and often leads to processes with complex heat integration. Membrane processes such as Nanofiltration (NF) and Reverse Osmosis (RO) selectively remove water at a low energy demand, and with low installation costs.