Researchers Design Microwave-Enhanced Membrane Filtration Tech

Water pollution affects millions of people worldwide and is a leading cause for public health concern. Specifically, unregulated and emerging pollutants — such as endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs), pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) — are toxic and refractory, which can be challenging to remove via conventional water treatment processes. Membrane filtration is an efficient and widely used chemical separation and water purification technology. Yet, membrane technology has some limitations like membrane fouling and inadequate removal of EDCs and PPCPs. Now, Dr. Wen Zhang’s group at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has designed a novel reactive membrane system with the ability to degrade the