An experimental study on membrane distillation-crystallization for treating waste water in taurine production

A framework for better understanding membrane distillation separation process

“…MD is even capable of recovering crystal valuable products from effluents. With regards to this aspect, membrane distillation crystallization (MDC) is a relatively new attractive process that recently has been applied to recover valuable salts in crystal form from its effluents and the processing of brine from desalination operations [54,[63][64][65][66]. MDC combines both a MD module for pure water production and a crystallizer into which the brine of the MD unit at its supersaturation state is charged and solids are recovered in crystal forms.…”

“…Separation of azeotropic aqueous mixtures such as alcohol-water mixtures, concentration of radioactive solutions and application for nuclear desalination, waste water treatment in which a less hazardous waste can be discharged to the environment specially in textile waste treatment that is contaminated with dyes, concentration of coolant (glycol) aqueous solutions, treatment of humic acid solutions, pharmaceutical waste water treatment and in areas where high temperature applications lead to degradation of process fluids, can be attractive [1,29,[39][40][41][42][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62]. It must be pointed out that desalination is the most known DCMD application as near 100% rejection of non-volatile ionic solutes is easily achieved [1,22].…”

Xenobiotics Removal by Membrane Technology: An Overview

“…Wu et al [143] studied the application of MD in the treatment of a taurine rich pharmaceutical wastewater effluent where the concentrate obtained is very rich in taurine (66% purity). Cartinella et al [21] studied the removal of natural steroid hormones using MD.…”

Enhanced performance of a biomimetic membrane for Na2CO3 crystallization in the scenario of CO2 capture

“…To date, the use of membranes has been regarded as a "process intensification" strategy to satisfy the requirements of sustainable development [9,10]. MACr has broadened its potential applications in recent years, such as the production of pharmaceuticals or proteins or their recovery from waste streams [11][12][13][14][15], as well as valuable resource recovery from high salinity streams [16][17][18][19][20][21][22]. For instance, Caridi et al [23] and Profio et al [24] employed a hydrophobic hollow fiber membrane module in osmotic membrane distillation for separation of proteins, allowing the crystallization of pure proteins with a uniform size and specific polymorphism at room temperature.…”