American Journal of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering

Special Issue

Membrane Bioreactors: Recent Advances in Membrane Fouling Control

  • Submission Deadline: 15 April 2020
  • Status: Submission Closed
  • Lead Guest Editor: Maryam Amini
About This Special Issue
Membrane technology provides a promising solution in separation processes such as water and wastewater treatment. The bottleneck of the membrane technology is the fouling of the membrane that shortens the membrane lifetime and increases the operation cost. Membrane fouling is also associated with increased operation and maintenance cost.
Among all membrane-based treatment systems, algal related technologies that mainly referred to as membrane bioreactors piqued many interests. The products of the membrane bioreactor and membrane photobioreactors, named biomass, are a source of various products, such as cosmetics, pigments, and biofuels.
For this special issue on the recent advances on membrane fouling mitigation techniques, such as membrane enhancement, operational control, and design enhancement that could overcome the fouling of the bioreactors and photobioreactors are welcome. The aim is to publish research works that contribute to progressing the knowledge of membrane fouling in bioreactors that are in center of attentions as a favorable treatment technology.
Aims and Scope:
  1. Membrane photobioreactor
  2. Membrane bioreactor
  3. Membrane fouling
  4. Surface modification
  5. Design enhancement
  6. Water and wastewater treatment
Lead Guest Editor
  • Maryam Amini

    Department of Biotechnology, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Canada

Guest Editors
  • Kamyar Ghorbani

    Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Sharif Department of University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

  • Maryam Khanali

    Department of Chemical Engineering, Babol Noshirvani University of Technology, Babol, Iran

  • Mozhdeh Jamshidi Savadroodbari

    Department of Metallurgy Engineering, Iran University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

  • AliReza Shahidi Zadeh

    Department of Materials Science Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

  • Melika Nooranfar

    Sharif University, Tehran, Iran