10th International Congress on Membrane and Membrane Processes

10th International Congress on Membrane and Membrane Processes

Jointly organised by the Aseanian Membrane Society, the European Membrane Society and the North American Membrane Society, the 10th International Congress on Membrane and Membrane Processes (ICOM) was held at Suzhou, China from 20th to 25th July 2014. ICOM is a highly regarded triennial conference in the membrane community, attracting scientists from around the world for scientifi c disseminati...

Highlights of the 10th International Congress on Behçet's Disease.

Epidemiology The pap e rs on ep i d e m i o l ogy we re mainly based on hospital registries except for one field survey from Iraq that rep o rted a disease prevalence of 17/ 100,000 (1). There was a decrease in the number of patients in an opthalmology department in Japan (2) and in Iran (3) with a trend towards milder forms of the disease especially in Iran. A higher familial occurence was rep...

Physical Backwash Optimization in Membrane Filtration Processes: Seawater Ultrafiltration Case

Seawater ultrafi ltration (UF) as a pretreatment of reverse osmosis (RO) process in a thermal power plant was investigated using a 100 kDa hollow fi ber membrane. The choice of the UF physical backwash conditions remains arbitrary or ensuing from a sensibility study. As the optimum must take into account the factors interactions, we led a response surface study to analy...

Announcement of “2nd International Congress on Food Science and Technology”

Scale-up Strategies for Membrane-Based Desalination Processes: A Review

Membrane-based technologies have increasingly been chosen in desalination processes, which is evidenced by the increase of large-scale plants constructed in recent years. Indeed, several appropriate strategies should be considered to minimize problems faced during the construction, such as membrane system designs, area requirement, energy requirement, operation and maintenance, and environmenta...