Dear Colleagues, 

Human activity generates large amounts of domestic, industrial and agricultural wastewater, causing a large number of pollutants of different natures to reach the surface and groundwater, making water pollution one of the most important environmental problems of our world.

Among the different technologies commonly used to deal with this problem, membrane technology has proven to offer effective solutions given, among others, its applicability to pollutants of a very different nature, flexibility (wide range of processes and membranes nature/composition), high selectivity, easy operation, simple equipment, non-extreme experimental conditions and efficient use of energy.

This Special Issue aims to include the results of the most recent research related to the use of the membrane processes for the removal of pollutants of different origin and chemical nature from the aqueous media, including (but not limited to), use of any type of membrane process (ultrafiltration, nanofiltration, reverse osmosis, pervaporation, liquid membranes, polymeric inclusion membranes, membrane reactors, etc.), design, improvement, application and combination of these processes, use  of membranes of different nature, preparation and use of modified membranes and development of new mathematical models to describe the processes. Both research and review papers are welcome.

Prof. Dr. Gerardo León
Guest Editor

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• membrane processes
• priority and emerging pollutants
• combined membrane processes
• membrane modification and use
• wastewater treatment
• modeling
• design
• improvement