Recent progress, challenges, and opportunities of membrane distillation for heavy metals removal

Aijaz, Muhammad Omer and Karim, Mohammad Rezaul and Omar, Najib Meftah Almukhtar and Othman, Mohd Hafiz Dzarfan and Wahab, Mohammad Abdul and Uzzaman, Md Akhtar and Alharbi, Hend M. and Wazeer, Irfan (2022) Recent progress, challenges, and opportunities of membrane distillation for heavy metals removal. Chemical Record, 22 (7, SI). ISSN 1527-8999, DOI https://doi.org/10.1002/tcr.202100323.

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Abstract

Water is essential for the presence of life on this earth. However, water contamination due to the presence of heavy/toxic metals is one of the serious environmental issues for living beings. Several methods have been devoted to separating or removing those heavy metals from wastewater. Among them, membrane distillation (MD) has become one of the most attractive approaches due to its higher rejection rate than processes driven by pressure, lower energy consumption than traditional distillation processes. MD has gained significant attention for removing heavy metals than other techniques like ion exchange and adsorption in the last two decades. This review provides insight knowledge to the reader and focuses on how heavy metals impact humans and the environment, sources of heavy metals, current and especially removal methods using the MD method. Moreover, recent studies, challenges, and opportunities on MD membrane modules and heavy metal removal systems are discussed. More importantly, in this review, we have identified the gaps and opportunities that are required for enhancing the MD approach and its practical suitability for heavy metal removals. MD module and system showed high performance, proving their possible applications to remove heavy metal ions in water/wastewater treatment.

Item Type: Article
Funders: Deanship of Scientific Research at King Saud University, Riyadh [RGP-1438-025]
Uncontrolled Keywords: Heavy metals; Membrane distillation; Separation; Wastewater; Water treatment
Subjects: Q Science > QD Chemistry
T Technology > TP Chemical technology
Divisions: Faculty of Engineering
Depositing User: Ms. Juhaida Abd Rahim
Date Deposited: 15 Sep 2023 07:11
Last Modified: 15 Sep 2023 07:11
URI: http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/41258

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