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Membrane Technologies for Oil–Water Separation

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Oily wastewater treatment can be classified into two categories; primary and secondary treatment systems. The primary treatment is employed to separate floatable oils from water and emulsified oil. Secondary treatment system is aimed to treat or break emulsified oil and, then, remove oil from water. This chapter mainly describes use of classical membrane technologies, which are ultrafiltration, microfiltration, nanofiltration, and reverse osmosis, for oil–water separation. Advances in membrane technology such as membrane modification, development of inorganic membrane, and improvement of hydrophilicity of membrane for oil water separation are also discussed as well.

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Kajitvichyanukul, P., Hung, YT., Wang, L.K. (2011). Membrane Technologies for Oil–Water Separation. In: Wang, L.K., Chen, J.P., Hung, YT., Shammas, N.K. (eds) Membrane and Desalination Technologies. Handbook of Environmental Engineering, vol 13. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-278-6_15

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