Inorganic membranes: synthesis, characterization and applications

The withstanding properties of inorganic membranes provide a set of tools forsolving many of the problems that the society is facing, from environmental to energy problems and from water quality to more competitive industries. Such a wide variety of issues requires a fundamental approach, together with the precise description of applications provided by those researchers that have beenclose to the industrial applications. The contents of this book expand the lectures given in a Summer School of the European Membrane Society. They combinean easily accessible description of the technology, suitable for the graduatelevel, with the most advanced developments and the prospective of future applications.The large variety of membrane types makes almost compulsory to selecta specialist for each of them, and this has been the approach selected in this book. In the case of porous membranes, the advances are related to the synthesis of microporous materials such as silica, carbon and zeolite membranes andhollow fibre membranes. A chapter covers the increasingly relevant hybrid membranes. Attention is also devoted to dense inorganic membranes, experiencing constantly improved properties. The applications of all these membranes are considered throughout the book. It covers all the inorganic membranes field, by different experts. It comes from a European Summer School. It includes future directions in the field.

• ISBN: 978-0-444-53070-7
• Editorial: Elsevier Science
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 480
• Fecha Publicación: 13/03/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés