"If I were to carry whisky in a hip flask when out walking, and I were to consume it quickly, it would make me tipsy. The whisky has the power to do something, but the power is only made manifest if it is consumed. Likewise, the osmotic pressure of a solution contained in a beaker open to the atmosphere is not a pressure that is exerted. Osmosis only emerges in the presence of a suitable membrane and these membranes are absolutely key to the various osmosis processes. Thus, readers of Osmosis Engineering might well expect to find more about membrane development than is provided. What the book offers instead, it is an introductory chapter on the basic principles of osmosis, and then an initial focus on reverse osmosis and nanofiltration, two well-established commercially successful processes in which the osmotic pressure has to be overcome though elevation of the feed pressure. The main part of the book then covers processes in which the difference in osmotic pressure is itself the driving force...." --The Chemical Engineer
1. Basic Principles of Osmosis and Osmotic Pressure 2. Fundamentals and application of reverse osmosis membrane processes 3. Principles of Nanofiltration Membrane Processes 4. Recent Development in Nanofiltration Process Applications 5. Principles of Forward Osmosis 6. Recent developments in forward osmosis (FO) and its implication in expanding applications 7. Principle and theoretical background of pressure retarded osmosis process 8. Application of PRO process for seawater and wastewater treatment: Assessment of membrane performance 9. Osmotic distillation and osmotic membrane distillation for the treatment of different feed solutions 10. Thermo-osmosis (TO) 11. The Applications of Integrated Osmosis Processes for Desalination and Wastewater Treatment 12. Development and Implementations of Integrated Osmosis System
