Hollow Fiber Membrane Contactors
Module Fabrication, Design and Operation, and Potential Applications

This book on hollow fiber contractors presents an up-to-date compilation of the latest developments and milestones in this membrane technology. Hollow Fiber Membrane Contactors: Module Fabrication, Design and Operation, and Potential Applicationsprovides a comprehensive discussion of hollow fiber membrane applications (including a few case studies) in biotechnology, chemical, food, and nuclear engineering.

The chapters in this book have been classified using the following, based on different ways of contacting fluids with each other: Gas-liquid contacting; Liquid-liquid contacting; Supported liquid membrane; Supported gas membrane; Fluid-fluid contacting.

Other features include:

• Discusses using non-dispersive solvent extraction, hollow fiber strip dispersion, hollow fiber supported liquid membranes and role of process intensification in integrated use of these processes
• Provides technical and economic perspectives with several case studies related to specific scenarios
• Demonstrates module fabrication, design, operation and maintenance of hollow fiber contactors for different applications and performance
• Presents discussion on newer concepts like membrane emulsification, membrane nanoprecipitation, membrane crystallization and membrane condenser
• Special focus on emerging areas such as the use of hollow fiber contactor in back end of nuclear fuel cycle, membrane distillation, dehumidification of air and gas absorption and stripping
• Discusses theoretical analysis including computational modeling of different hollow fiber membrane processes, and presents emphasis on newly developed area of hollow fiber membrane based analytical techniques
• Presents discussion on upcoming area dealing with hollow fiber contactors-based technology in fermentation and enzymatic transformation and in chiral separations

This book is equally suited for newcomers to the field, as well as for engineers and scientists that have basic knowledge in this field but are interested in obtaining more information about specific future applications.

Chapter 1 Hollow Fiber Membrane CFntactors: Introduction and Perspectives . Chapter 2 Advanced Concepts in Membrane Contactors. Chapter 3 Membrane Contactor Device Designs - History and Advancements. Chapter 4 Advances in Hollow Fiber Contactor-Based Technology in Gas Absorption and Stripping. Chapter 5 Membrane Contactor Applications in Various Industries. Chapter 6 Computational Modelig of Mass Transfer in Hollow Fiber Membrane-Based Separation Processes. Chapter 7 Treatment of Metal-Bearing Aqueous Solutions via Hollow Fibers Processing. Chapter 8 Process Intensification in Integrated Use of Hollow Fiber Contactor-Based Processes: Case Studies of Sparkling Water Production and Membrane Contactor-Based Strip Dispersion Process. Chapter 9 Application of Hollow Fibre Contactor for Polishing of Lean Streams Containing Uranium from Nuclear Industry: Scale up and Demonstration. Chapter 10 Advances in Membrane Emulsification and Membrane Nanoprecipitation Using Membrane Contactors: State-of-the-Art and perspectives. Chapter 11 Application of Liquid Membrane Technology at Back End of Nuclear Fuel Cycle-Perspectives and Challenges. Chapter 12 Hollow Fiber Membrane-Based Analytical Techniques: Recent Advances. Chapter 13 Hollow Fiber Membrane Contactors for Dehumidification of Air. Chapter 14 Gas Filled Membrane Pores-Fundamentals and Applications . Chapter 15 Amonium Valorization from Urban Waste Water as Liquid Fertilizers by Using Liquid-Liquid Membrane Contactors. Chapter 16 Hollow Fiber Membrane Contactors in Facilitated Transport-Based Separations-Fundamentals and Applications. Chapter 17 Membrane Distillation, Membrane Crystallization and Membrane Condenser. Chapter 18 Role of Hollow Fiber Contactor-Based Technology in Fermentation and Enzymatic Transformation and in Chiral Separations. Chapter 19 Advances in Hollow Fiber Contactor Technology in Food, Pharmaceutical, and Biotechnological Separation. Index.