New Frontiers in Membrane Science and Technology

Energy, water, affordable healthcare and global warming are four major concerns globally resulting from resource depletion, record high oil prices, clean water shortages, high costs of pharmaceuticals, and changing climate conditions. Among many potential solutions, advance in membrane technology is one of the most direct, effective and feasible approaches to solve these sophisticated issues.

Confirmed keynotes

Professor Andrew Zydney
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802-4400
USA
Zydney@engr.psu.edu

Professor Dibakar Bhattacharyya
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40506-0046
USA
db@engr.uky.edu

Scope

This membrane program is dedicated to summarize the most current membrane research and development for water reuses and desalination, energy development including biofuel, CO2 capture, pharmaceutical purification and separation, and biomedical applications.

The proposed topics are :

Membranes for water reuses and desalination

  • Microfiltration and ultrafiltration
  • Membrane bioreactors and fouling
  • Nano-filtration and RO
  • Emerging membrane technologies (membrane distillation, forward osmosis and others)

Membranes for energy, gas separation and CO2 capture

  • Hydrogen and natural gas purification
  • Bioenegry (biogas and biofuel)
  • CO2 capture

Membranes for pharmaceutical separation and biomedical applications

  • Protein separation
  • Chiral separation
  • Biomedical applications

Membrane materials and sciences

  • Mixed matrix membranes
  • Gas separation
  • Pervaporation
  • Membrane formation
  • Membrane characterization

Publication

This symposium will be included in the WCCE8 proceedings.

Organizers

Prof. Isabel Escobar
Chemical and Environmental Engineering Dept.,
The University of Toledo,
2801 W Bancroft St, MS 305
Toledo, OH 43606, USA
isabel.escobar@utoledo.edu

Prof. T. S. Chung (Neal)
Blk E4, 4 Engineering Drive 3,
#05-40,
Singapore 117576
Tel: (65) 6516 6645
Fax: (65) 6779 1936
chencts@nus.edu.sg

Prof. Vicki Chen
UNESCO Centre for Membrane Science and Technology,
Room 313, Applied Science Bldg,
The University of New South Wales,
Sydney, 2052, Australia
v.chen@unsw.edu.au