Surfactant and polymer-based technologies for water treatment
Water provision is essential for domestic and industrial activity. With population growth and industrialisation, the access to affordable clean water has become a pervasive problem. To tackle the problem, a considerable amount of research has been targeted on developing robust decontamination techno...
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| author | Shen, L Hankins, NP Singh, R |
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| description | Water provision is essential for domestic and industrial activity. With population growth and industrialisation, the access to affordable clean water has become a pervasive problem. To tackle the problem, a considerable amount of research has been targeted on developing robust decontamination technologies that can treat wastewater at lower cost, using less energy and with a minimum chemical usage and associated impact on the environment. In this contribution, we highlight several surfactant and/or polymer-based technologies which have been developed over the past few decades for water treatment. Among these emerging technologies, polymer–surfactant complexation and flocculation is emerging as a new, economical and sustainable process for removing the contaminants from dilute aqueous solutions, and then recovering them into a highly concentrated valuable product, before recycling the polymer and surfactant in the next cycle without deterioration of treatment performance. Both membrane-based and nonmembrane-based technologies are addressed. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:6891adcf-6f1f-4d78-a771-59d8d9e22cf82025-01-30T11:43:56ZSurfactant and polymer-based technologies for water treatmentBook sectionhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_1843uuid:6891adcf-6f1f-4d78-a771-59d8d9e22cf8EnglishSymplectic Elements at OxfordElsevier2016Shen, LHankins, NPSingh, RHankins, NPSingh, RWater provision is essential for domestic and industrial activity. With population growth and industrialisation, the access to affordable clean water has become a pervasive problem. To tackle the problem, a considerable amount of research has been targeted on developing robust decontamination technologies that can treat wastewater at lower cost, using less energy and with a minimum chemical usage and associated impact on the environment. In this contribution, we highlight several surfactant and/or polymer-based technologies which have been developed over the past few decades for water treatment. Among these emerging technologies, polymer–surfactant complexation and flocculation is emerging as a new, economical and sustainable process for removing the contaminants from dilute aqueous solutions, and then recovering them into a highly concentrated valuable product, before recycling the polymer and surfactant in the next cycle without deterioration of treatment performance. Both membrane-based and nonmembrane-based technologies are addressed. |
| spellingShingle | Shen, L Hankins, NP Singh, R Surfactant and polymer-based technologies for water treatment |
| title | Surfactant and polymer-based technologies for water treatment |
| title_full | Surfactant and polymer-based technologies for water treatment |
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| title_short | Surfactant and polymer-based technologies for water treatment |
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