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  1. 1
    by Gekas, Vassilis
    Published 1992
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    by Rasco, Barbara
    Published 2005
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    by Berkowitz, Brian
    Published 2008
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    Published 2010
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    by Miller, Percival A.
    Published 2003
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    by Suthersan, Suthan S.
    Published 2005
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    Published 2008
    Table of Contents ...Chemical processes during biological wastewater treatment....
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    Published 2016
    Table of Contents ...Biological FCs; 1.3.1. Types of biological FCs; 1.4. ...
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    by Brusseau, Mark L.
    Published 2019
    Table of Contents ...Brusseau, J. Chorover -- Biological processes affecting contaminants transport and fate / R.M. ...
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    Published 2019
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    Published 2010
    Table of Contents ...Prasanna del Silva & Seiichi Uchiyama -- Harnessing biological motors to engineer systems for nanoscale transport and assembly / Anita Goel & Viola Vogel -- Designed DNA molecules: principles and applications of molecular nanotechnology / Anne Condon -- DNA nanomachines / Jonathan Bath & Andrew J. ...
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    Published 2009
    Table of Contents ...Electrochemical and Biological Sensors --...
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    by Strathmann, H.
    Published 2011
    Table of Contents ...Fundamentals -- Membrane preparation and characterization -- Principles of membrane separation processes -- Membrane modules and concentration polarization -- Membrane process design and operation. 1.Introduction -- 1.1.Overview of Membrane Science and Technology -- 1.2.History of Membrane Science and Technology -- 1.3.Advantages and Limitations of Membrane Processes -- 1.4.The Membrane-Based Industry: Its Structure and Markets -- 1.5.Future Developments in Membrane Science and Technology -- 1.5.1.Biological Membranes -- 1.6.Summary -- Recommended Reading -- References -- 2.Fundamentals -- 2.1.Introduction -- 2.2.Definition of Terms -- 2.2.1.The Membrane and Its Function -- 2.2.2.Membrane Materials and Membrane Structures -- 2.2.2.A Symmetric and Asymmetric Membranes -- 2.2.2.2.Porous Membranes -- 2.2.2.3.Homogeneous Dense Membranes -- 2.2.2.4.Ion-Exchange Membranes -- 2.2.2.5.Liquid Membranes -- 2.2.2.6.Fixed Carrier Membranes -- 2.2.2.7.Other Membranes -- 2.2.2.8.Membrane Geometries -- 2.2.3.Mass Transport in Membranes -- 2.2.4.Membrane Separation Properties -- 2.2.5.Definition of Various Membrane Processes -- 2.2.5.1.Pressure-Driven Membrane Processes -- 2.2.5.2.Activity and Concentration Gradient Driven Membrane Processes -- 2.2.5.3.Electrical Potential and Electrochemical Potential Driven Processes -- 2.3.Fundamentals of Mass Transport in Membranes and Membrane Processes -- 2.3.1.Basic Thermodynamic Relationships with Relevance to Membrane Processes -- 2.3.2.Basic Electrochemical Relationships with Relevance to Membrane Processes -- 2.3.2.1.Electron and Ion Conductivity and Ohm's Law -- 2.3.2.2.Ion Conductivity, Ion Mobility, and Drift Speed -- 2.3.2.3.Coulomb's Law and the Electric Field Effect on Ions in Solution -- 2.3.2.4.The Electric Field Effect in Electrolyte Solutions and the Debye-Hückel Theory -- 2.3.2.5.Electrical Dipoles and Intermolecular Forces -- 2.3.3.Chemical and Electrochemical Equilibrium in Membrane Systems -- 2.3.3.1.Water Dissociation Equilibrium and the pH- and pK Values of Acids and Bases -- 2.3.3.2.Osmotic Equilibrium, Osmotic Pressure, Osmosis, and Reverse Osmosis -- 2.3.3.3.The Electrochemical Equilibrium and the Donnan Potential between a Membrane and a Solution -- 2.3.3.4.The Donnan Exclusion of the Co-ions -- 2.3.4.Fluxes and Driving Forces in Membrane Processes -- 2.3.4.1.Viscous Flow through Porous Membranes -- 2.3.4.2.Diffusion in Liquids and Dense Membranes -- 2.3.4.3.Diffusion in Solid or Dense Materials -- 2.3.4.4.Ion Flux and Electrical Current -- 2.3.4.5.Diffusion of Ions in an Electrolyte Solution -- 2.3.4.6.Ion Mobility and Ion Radius in Aqueous Solutions -- 2.3.4.7.Migration of Ions and the Electrical Current -- 2.3.4.8.The Transport Number and the Permselectivity of Ion-exchange Membranes -- 2.3.4.9.Interdependence of Fluxes and Driving Forces -- 2.3.4.10.Gas Flux through Porous Membranes, the Knudsen and Surface Diffusion and Molecular Sieving -- 2.3.4.11.Surface Diffusion and Capillary Condensation of Gases -- 2.4.Mathematical Description of Mass Transport in Membranes -- 2.4.1.Mass Transport Described by the Thermodynamics of Irreversible Processes -- 2.4.2.Mass Transport Described by the Stefan-Maxwell Equations -- 2.4.3.Membrane Mass Transport Models -- 2.4.3.1.The Solution-Diffusion Model -- 2.4.3.2.The Pore Flow Model and the Membrane Cut-off -- References -- 3.Membrane Preparation and Characterization -- 3.1.Introduction -- 3.2.Membrane Materials -- 3.2.1.Polymeric Membrane Materials -- 3.2.1.1.The Physical State of a Polymer -- 3.2.1.2.Crystallinity and Glass Transition Temperature -- 3.2.1.3.The Glass Transition Temperature and the Free Volume -- 3.2.1.4.Molecular Weight of a Polymer Chain -- 3.2.1.5.Macroscopic Structures of Polymers -- 3.2.1.6.Polymer Chain Interaction and Its Effect on Physical Properties -- 3.2.1.7.The Chemical Structure of the Polymer and Its Effect on Polymer Properties -- 3.2.2.Inorganic Membrane Materials -- 3.2.2.1.Metal Membranes -- 3.2.2.2.Glass Membranes -- 3.2.2.3.Carbon Membranes -- 3.2.2.4.Metal Oxide Membranes -- 3.2.3.Liquid Membrane Materials -- 3.3.Preparation of Membranes -- 3.3.1.Preparation of Symmetric Porous Membranes -- 3.3.1.1.Isotropic Membranes Made by Sintering of Powders, Stretching of Films, and Template Leaching -- 3.3.1.2.Membranes Made by Pressing and Sintering of Polymer Powders -- 3.3.1.3.Membranes Made by Stretching a Polymer Film of Partial Crystallinity -- 3.3.1.4.Membranes Made by Track-Etching -- 3.3.1.5.Membranes Made by Micro-Lithography and Etching Techniques -- 3.3.1.6.Glass Membranes Made by Template Leaching -- 3.3.1.7.Porous Graphite Membranes Made by Pyrolyzing Polymer Structures -- 3.3.1.8.Symmetric Porous Polymer Membranes Made by Phase Inversion Techniques -- 3.3.2.Preparation of Asymmetric Membranes -- 3.3.2.1.Preparation of Integral Asymmetric Membranes -- 3.3.3.Practical Membrane Preparation by Phase Inversion -- 3.3.3.1.Temperature-Induced Membrane Preparation -- 3.3.3.2.Diffusion-Induced Membrane Preparation -- 3.3.4.Phenomenological Description of the Phase Separation Process -- 3.3.4.1.Temperature-Induced Phase Separation Process -- 3.3.4.2.Thermodynamics of a Temperature-Induced Phase Separation of a Two-Component Mixture -- 3.3.4.3.The Diffusion-Induced Phase Separation Process -- 3.3.4.4.Structures of Asymmetric Membranes Obtained by Phase Inversion -- 3.3.4.5.Identification of Various Process Parameters in the Preparation of Phase Inversion Membranes -- 3.3.4.6.General Observation Concerning the Structure of Phase Inversion Membranes -- 3.3.4.7.The Selection of a Polymer/Solvent/Precipitant System for the Preparation of Membranes -- 3.3.4.8.Membrane Pre- and Post-Precipitation Treatment -- 3.3.5.Preparation of Composite Membranes -- 3.3.5.1.Techniques Used for the Preparation of Polymeric Composite Membranes -- 3.3.6.Preparation of Inorganic Membranes -- 3.3.6.1.Suspension Coating and the Sol-Gel Process -- 3.3.6.2.Perovskite Membranes -- 3.3.6.3.Zeolite Membranes -- 3.3.6.4.Porous Carbon Membranes -- 3.3.6.5.Porous Glass Membranes -- 3.3.7.Preparation of Homogeneous Solid Membranes -- 3.3.7.1.Preparation of Liquid Membranes -- 3.3.7.2.Preparation of Ion-Exchange Membranes -- 3.4.Membrane Characterization -- 3.4.1.Characterization of Porous Membranes -- 3.4.1.1.Techniques using Microscopy -- 3.4.1.2.Determination of Micro-and Ultrafiltration Membrane Fluxes -- 3.4.1.3.Membrane Retention and Molecular Weight Cut-Off -- 3.4.1.4.The Bacterial Challenge Test -- 3.4.2.Membrane Pore Size Determination -- 3.4.2.1.Air/Liquid and Liquid/Liquid Displacement -- 3.4.2.2.The Bubble Point Method and Gas Liquid Porosimetry -- 3.4.2.3.Liquid/Liquid Displacement -- 3.4.2.4.Permporometry -- 3.4.2.5.Thermoporometry -- 3.4.3.Characterization of Dense Membranes -- 3.4.3.1.Determination of Diffusivity in Dense Membranes -- 3.4.3.2.Long-Term Stability of Membranes -- 3.4.4.Determination of Electrochemical Properties of Membranes -- 3.4.4.1.Hydraulic Permeability of Ion-Exchange Membranes -- 3.4.4.2.The Fixed Charge Density of Ion-Exchange Membranes -- 3.4.4.3.Determination of the Electrical Resistance of Ion-Exchange Membranes -- 3.4.4.4.A Membrane Resistance Measurements by Impedance Spectroscopy -- 3.4.4.5.Permselectivity of Ion-Exchange Membranes -- 3.4.4.6.Membrane Permeation Selectivity for Different Counter-ions -- 3.4.4.7.Water Transport in Ion-Exchange Membranes -- 3.4.4.8.Characterization of Special Property Ion-Exchange Membranes -- 3.4.4.9.The Mechanical Properties of Membranes -- References -- 4.Principles of Membrane Separation Processes -- 4.1.Introduction -- 4.2.The Principle of Membrane Filtration Processes -- 4.2.1.The Principle of Microfiltration -- 4.2.2.The Principle of Ultrafiltration -- 4.2.3.The Principle of Nanofiltration -- 4.2.4.The Principle of Reverse Osmosis -- 4.2.4.1.The Reverse Osmosis Mass Transport Described by the Solution-Diffusion Model -- 4.2.4.2.Reverse Osmosis Transport Described by the Phenomenological Equations -- 4.2.4.3.The Water and Salt Distribution in a Polymer Matrix and the Cluster Function -- 4.3.The Principle of Gas and Vapor Separation -- 4.3.1.Gas Separation by Knudsen...
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    Published 2021
    Table of Contents ...Water chemistry in the biological studies by using nuclear analytical techniques 8. ...
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    by Fränzle, Stefan, 1961-
    Published 2012
    Table of Contents ...1.4.2 Physical Methods in Chemical and Environmental Analysis, Modeling Ecosystems and the Role of Ecotoxicology in Integrative Environmental Sciences1.4.2.1 Analytical Chemistry; 1.4.2.2 Geographical Information Systems; 1.4.2.3 Biotest-Biological and Ecotoxicological Implications; 1.4.2.4 Locating Soil Pollution Sites by Geoelectric and Other Means; 1.5 Biological System of the Elements; 1.5.1 Specificity; 1.5.2 Essentiality; 1.5.3 Bioavailability; 1.5.4 Toxicity; 1.6 Information and Communication; 1.6.1 What Is This Thing Called Information?...
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