Pressure-driven and thermally-driven membrane operations for the treatment of arsenic-contaminated waters: A comparison.

Arsenic Membrane distillation Nanofiltration Reverse osmosis Water treatment

Journal

Journal of hazardous materials
ISSN: 1873-3336
Titre abrégé: J Hazard Mater
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 9422688

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
15 05 2019
Historique:
received: 05 04 2018
revised: 06 07 2018
accepted: 10 07 2018
pubmed: 8 8 2018
medline: 8 8 2018
entrez: 8 8 2018
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

The presence of arsenic in water beyond the admitted limits is becoming an important concern for many Countries. Methods usually employed for the arsenic removal from water are based on coagulation followed by filtration, ion-exchange, adsorption. Drawbacks like the use of chemicals and the production of sludges (in case of coagulation) have, however, to be mentioned. Membrane operations, based on the features of membrane materials involved in the separation, do not need chemicals and are easy to scale-up, due to their modularity. In this contribution, the potential of membrane operations for the treatment of arsenic-polluted water is presented and discussed. In particular, two classes of membrane operations are illustrated and compared, the pressure-driven, like Nanofiltration (NF) and Reverse Osmosis (RO) and the thermally-driven ones, like Membrane Distillation (MD).

Identifiants

pubmed: 30082090
pii: S0304-3894(18)30577-6
doi: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2018.07.047
pii:
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

147-155

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Auteurs

A Criscuoli (A)

Institute on Membrane Technology (ITM-CNR), via P. Bucci 17/C, Rende, CS, 87036 Italy. Electronic address: a.criscuoli@itm.cnr.it.

A Figoli (A)

Institute on Membrane Technology (ITM-CNR), via P. Bucci 17/C, Rende, CS, 87036 Italy.

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