Sustainable Membrane Technology for Water and Wastewater Treatment

Sustainability and How Membrane Technologies in Water Treatment Can be a Contributor.- LCA for Membrane Processes.- Process Intensification Definition and application to membrane processes.- Sustainable route in preparation of polymeric membranes.- Inorganic Membranes in Water and Wastewater Treatment.- Desalination by Reverse Osmosis.- Membrane Distillation in Desalination and Water Treatment.- Zero liquid discharge in desalination.- Removal of Toxic Compounds from Water by Membrane Distillation (Case study on arsenic).- Municipal wastewater treatment by membrane bioreactors.- Valuable Products Recovery from Wastewater in Agrofood by Membrane Processes.- Membrane Operations for the Recovery of Valuable Metals from Industrial Wastewater.- The potential of membrane technology for treatment of textile wastewater.

Dr. Alberto Figoli has been a senior researcher at the Institute on Membrane Technology, ITM-CNR (Italy) since 2001. He received his PhD in Chemical Technologies at the Membrane Technology Group, Twente University (Enschede, The Netherlands) in 2001. He is an expert in the field of membrane technology, particularly in membrane preparation and characterisation as well as membrane operation related to environmental issues. He received the prize for scientific productivity in 2006: the "Food Packaging Research - GSICA Award". He is a member of several associations dealing with membranes (EMS, GISCA, and EFCE). He has been a member of the PhD Council of the University of Calabria SIACE Doctorate School (Italy) since 2014. He was elected as a member of the Council of the European Membrane Society (EMS) for the period 2015-2019 with responsibility for "Education and Awards" activities (2015-2017) and is"Secretary" for the period 2017-2019. He is responsible for ITM-CNR of several EuropeanFP7 projects and national projects with private companies. He is also an evaluator of scientific research projects and PhD theses, and a member of selection/award juries and of conference scientific committees. He is the author of more than 100 scientific papers published in international peer-reviewed journals, 3 books and 16 chapters. He is also co-editor of special issues on membrane operations for journals. He also holds two international membrane technology patents.



Dr. Alessandra Criscuoli has been a senior researcher at the Institute on Membrane Technology, ITM-CNR (Italy) since 1999. She obtained her PhD in Chemical Engineering and New Materials at the Department of Chemical Engineering and New Materials of the University of Calabria (Italy) in 2000. She is an expert in membrane operations, especially in membrane contactors applied to water and wastewater treatments and to water desalination. She has been a member of the University of Calabria (Italy) PhD