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North AmericanMembrane Society
29th Annual MeetingEmerging Membranes,
Materials, Processes and Applications
May 16-20, 2020Tempe, AZ
Tempe Mission Palms
NAMS 2020
www. membranes.org
OVERVIEW OFTECHNICAL SESSIONS
CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRSMaryLaura Lind, Arizona State University
Manish Kumar, The University of Texas at Austin
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NAMS 2020 Overview of Technical Session
APPLICATIONS: BIOLOGICAL AND FOOD
Cell and Protein Purification, Harvesting, and ProcessingChairs: David Latulippe, [email protected] ; Prity Bengani-Lutz, [email protected]
This session will focus on the latest advances of membrane technologies inbioprocessing and purification of peptides and proteins, including monoclonalantibodies and tagged proteins. Contributions related to topics such as membrane-based cell culture production, clarification, cell harvesting, membrane chromatography,adsorption and perfusion are welcomed. We hope that the contributions to the sessionwill allow participants to apply and explore the use of existing and new membranetechnologies in cellular bioprocessing and potential scalability.
Purification of Non-Protein BiologicsChairs: Onur Kas, [email protected]; James McGrath, [email protected]
This session will highlight and compare state-of-art strategies for non-protein biologicspurification and explore the impact of their characteristics, such as affinity, size ,functionality, and binding mechanism, on the performance of purification strategies.Non-protein biologics such as nucleic acid, carbohydrate, vaccine, and cell-basedtherapies, viral vectors and oncolytic viruses are moving through clinical studies andemerging as approved products. Similarly, there is a growing interest in non-proteinbiologics such as extracellular vesicles and cell-free DNA as diagnostic targets andnovel therapies. We anticipate that the contributions to this session will allow theparticipants to discuss recent advances and approvals in therapeutic biologics andexplore therapeutics strategies on manufacturing and commercialization.
APPLICATIONS : ENERGY
Carbon CaptureChairs: Winston Ho, [email protected]; Dave Hopkinson, [email protected]
Membrane-based carbon dioxide capture technologies face several key challenges toprogress from lab scale to pilot demonstration scale. Materials must have highperformance, low-cost, and simple fabrication into a thin film composite as well asrobust stability in the presence of moisture and other contaminants. This session focuson, but not limited to, performance of membrane materials for both post- and pre-combustion carbon capture; flue or synthesis gas simulation and experiments; moduleand system designs; long-term testing; scale-up strategies and demonstrations ofmembranes for carbon capture; and techno-economic assessment along with CO2capture cost optimization.
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APPLICATIONS: WATER TREATMENT
Brine Minimization and Zero Liquid DischargeChair: Kerri Hickenbottom, [email protected]; Jonathan A. Brant, [email protected]
This session will highlight the applications of membrane technologies for low, mediumand high salinity brines treatment to achieve zero liquid discharge. We would like toinclude lab-, pilot-, and full-scale studies and demonstrations with a variety of brines(i.e., reverse osmosis concentrates, brackish water, seawater, produced water,industrial effluents,) to explore innovative solutions and strategies that are unique tomembrane technologies. We are soliciting contributions that address and discuss theperformance and scalability of these systems as well as techno-economic analysis andcomparison with other technologies.
Contaminant Removal from Surface Water, Groundwater and WastewaterChairs: Andre da Costa, [email protected]; Prakhar Prakash, [email protected] session will focus on membrane separation for water purification and contaminantremoval. Water sources include wastewater, surface waters (such as lakes, rivers andreservoirs), groundwater, and produced water. Contaminants may include particles,inorganic impurities, biological impurities (viruses/ bacteria), organic impurities such asnatural organic matter (NOM), emerging organics such as per- and polyfluoroalkylsubstances (PFAS) or oil resulting from accidental spills or production operations.Contamination may occur due to industrial pollution, solid waste landfills or pipelinecorrosion. We welcome papers addressing membrane performance (permeationproperties, fouling and integrity), module design, pilot studies for any of the watersources referred above.
Emerging Materials for Liquid SeparationsChairs: Hee Jeung Oh, [email protected]; Baoxia Mi, [email protected];
Lucy Camacho, [email protected]; Piran Kidambi, [email protected]
We invite contributions to this session that explore the development of polymeric, andmixed-matrix, ultra-thin, and nano-scale (including G and GO) membrane materials forhighly selective liquid separations. Innovative polymeric, inorganic, and hybridcomposite membrane materials could enable separations that have beenunachievable, energetically intensive, and cost prohibitive. Applications could include,but are not limited to, desalination, nanofiltration, resource recovery, efficient organicseparations, targeted contaminant removal from industrial or municipal wastewater,and biomedical separation. The emphasis will be on materials synthesis andcharacterization, but contributions describing practical demonstration of highly specificseparations are encouraged. 3
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APPLICATIONS: WATER TREATMENT (CONTINUED)
Osmotically Driven ProcessesChair: Tony Straub, [email protected]; AndreaAchilli, [email protected]; Milad Esfahani, [email protected]
This session will highlight recent innovations in membrane separation and processesthat utilize an osmotic driving force. Osmotically driven systems can be used whereconventional pressure-driven or thermal systems are have limitations or undesirableside effects. Presentations included in this session will offer new concepts through theimplementation of novel materials and procedures, improved system designs, andtheoretical models. These developments can further expand the potential ofosmotically driven membrane processes for applications such as desalination,wastewater treatment, high salinity brine treatment, food processing, chemicalseparations, and power generation.
Seawater DesalinationChairs: William Phillip, [email protected]; Eric Karp, [email protected]
This session will focus on the application of membranes in seawater desalination. Theareas of interest include membrane fouling, fouling mitigation strategies, separationefficiency, precision separations for ion recovery, integrating brine management withremineralization, and process integrity monitoring. The session includes, but is notlimited to, reverse osmosis desalination, novel membrane applications in seawaterdesalination, hybrid thermal or solar membrane distillation, forward osmosis, andpressure-retarded osmosis processes for energy generation from seawater. Weanticipate that the contributions to this session will allow the participants to explorerecent advances and approaches in seawater desalination and discuss innovativestrategies on fabrication and commercialization.
Water ReuseChairs: Vicky Karanikola, [email protected]; Jack Gilron, [email protected]
We invite contributions to this session that apply membrane technologies to the re-useof water in many different contexts. What unites all these contexts is that they involverecovery of water which has interacted with human-impacted environments. We plan toorganize the sub-sessions around different water sources, including: (1) industrialwastewater (e.g. pharmaceutical, power, food, mining, animal husbandry); (2)municipal wastewater; and (3) runoff (e.g. stormwater, agricultural runoff).
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MATERIALS
Bioinspired and Biomimetic MembranesChair: Yuexiao Shen, [email protected]; Patrick Saboe, [email protected]
This session will highlight new functional materials and scientific advancements thathave potential to contribute to the field of bioinspired and biomimetic membranes. Wesolicit papers relating to the topics, but not limited to, (1) Design, synthesis,performance, and characterization of bioinspired/biomimetic membranes; (2)Investigation of scalable strategies of bioinspired/biomimetic membranes; (3)Demonstration of innovative sensing or separation processes usingbioinspired/biomimetic membranes.
Inorganic MaterialsChairs: Jay Kniep, [email protected]
This session will highlight inorganic materials and membranes in the view of novelsynthesis, characterization, chemical and mechanical property studies, process designand molecular separations. These will include, but not limited to, microporous anddense membranes for separation of gas and liquid mixtures. We welcome submissionof papers on development of advanced composite membranes and inorganicmembranes as well as related membrane applications.
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Ion Exchange and Electrofunctional Materials and ProcessesChair: Geoffrey M. Geise, [email protected]; Orlando Coronell, [email protected]
This session welcomes contributions that describe recent advances in bothfundamental and applied understanding of membrane materials that function as ionexchange and/or electrofunctional materials. These functional membranes arebecoming increasingly significant for desalination applications (membrane capacitivedeionization or electrodialysis), energy technologies (batteries or reverseelectrodialysis), and resource recovery. Furthermore, they traditionally have been usedin other applications including water reuse, food processing, and the chloroalkaliprocess. Contributions to this session should focus primarily on (1) Novel membranematerials and properties; (2) Investigation of membrane performance, characterization,and modeling as opposed to the electro-membrane processes where thesemembranes are applied.
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MATERIALS (CONTINUED)
Membrane CharacterizationChairs: Weiyi Li, [email protected]; Santiago Romero-Vargas Castrillon, [email protected]
This session will highlight novel characterization methods and their applications to thebetter understanding of membrane materials and processes. This session will focus onmethods that resolve the fine chemical and structural features of materials as well astools with improved spatial or temporal resolution. Novel techniques for detailedinvestigation of membrane processes will also be emphasized. We plan to organize thesub-sessions around different aspects of characterization, including: (1) Membranematerial and structural characterization; (2) Novel methods or tools for characterizingthe kinetics of material synthesis; and (3) Process characterization (e.g. fluid dynamics,membrane fouling, integrity monitoring, etc.). We hope that the contributions to thesesessions will allow the participants to gain deeper insights of different membranes andmembrane processes, which aids their further development and optimization.
Membrane Synthesis and CastingChairs: Rachel Dorin, [email protected]; Christine E. Duval, [email protected]
This session will be a forum for exploring novel materials and methods used in the fieldof membrane science and technology. Unique organic and inorganic material sets, newstructures, and innovative formation pathways offer opportunities for realizing the next-generation of separation technology. Contributions to Innovations in MembraneSynthesis and Casting should contain elements that demonstrate ways to push andexpand the boundaries of existing membrane platforms.
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Catalytic and Responsive MembranesChairs: Miao Yu, [email protected]; Ayse Asatekin, [email protected] session will focus on innovative membrane materials that incorporate additionalfunctions, such as catalytic activity or responsiveness to external stimulation. Catalyticmembrane materials can enable combining selective permeation with chemicalconversion, for example, for degrading foulants. Responsive membrane materials canenable not only the tuning and control of membrane selectivity and permeability, butalso fouling prevention and removal. Research presentations addressing these topics,or other related systems that leverage these properties for membrane applications, areinvited to this session.
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MATERIALS (CONTINUED)
Organic Solvent SeparationsChair: Ryan Lively, [email protected]; Steve White, [email protected]; Michele Galizia, [email protected]
This session will focus broadly on liquid phase separations in organic media (organicsolvent filtration, OSN/OSRO/ OSFO, etc.). We are interested in topical areas rangingfrom novel materials for organic solvent separations, pilot or pre-pilot experiments,organic solvent transport in membrane materials, process systems assessment, andnew characterization techniques that are designed for probing membranes in organicmedia.
Polymeric and Mixed-Materials Materials – Gas SeparationsChairs: Benjamin J. Sundell, [email protected]; Xiaoli Ma, [email protected];
Zachary P. Smith, [email protected]
We welcome contributions to this session that explore the advancements of polymericand mixed-matrix membrane or materials for efficiently selective gas separations.Membrane-based gas separations are of interest for a variety of applications such asnitrogen generation, carbon dioxide removal from natural gas or flue gas, andolefin/paraffin separations. One approach to address these critical separationchallenges is using selective polymeric or mixed-matrix membranes. The rationaldesign of the chemical and morphological structure of polymers is one way to surpasscurrent performance and stability limitations. In addition, incorporation of highlyselective fillers, such as MOFs, ZIFs, COFs, zeolites, and carbons, can similarlyenable improved performance. This session will highlight advances in the synthesisand design of polymers and inorganic materials to form pure polymeric and mixed-matrix membranes for gas separation applications as well as investigation of strategieson fabrication and commercialization.
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PROCESSESHybrid Processes and Process IntegrationChair: Jia Wei Chew, [email protected]; Ed Sanders, [email protected]
This session will highlight papers that focus on combining two or more membraneprocesses or combining a membrane process with one or more non-membraneprocesses. Papers that explore and discuss novel hybrid processes are particularlyencouraged. Specific topics to be welcome would include forward osmosis combinedwith distillation or extraction to regenerate the draw solution or pressure-retardedosmosis that uses membrane technology in combination with a device to convert theosmotic potential into mechanical or electrical energy.
Membrane Distillation and PervaporationChairs: Leland M. Vane, [email protected]; Alexander V. Dudchenko, [email protected]
Despite showing significant technical promise, evaporation-based membraneprocesses are still considered emerging technologies with muted commercial success.Membrane distillation is commonly mentioned as an alternative to recover water fromchallenging solutions. Pervaporation, and sister technology vapor permeation, havefinally made commercial inroads in bioethanol dehydration. While membraneimprovements will always make a process more efficient, innovations in processdesign and membrane/module/system scalability may do more to advance thesetechnologies at this stage in their evolution. Submissions covering advances inmodule design, process design/integration, technoeconomic analyses, real worldscale-up, membrane materials, and scaling/fouling mitigation are most welcome. 8
Molecular and Process ModelingChairs: Shihong Lin, [email protected]; David Warsinger, [email protected] of new and functional membrane materials have emerged in recentresearch development. Nevertheless, the practical implementation of innovativemembrane technologies requires understanding properties and phenomena that spanmany time and length scales, as well as considering economic analysis andassessments. Computational modeling is a powerful tool combining with a realinvestigation and understanding of process-application economics, which can helppredict useful direction for membrane researchers to pursue. This particular session willhighlight the following topics: (1) Atomistic or molecular modeling of materials and fluidsin the context of membranes; (2) macroscale or multiscale membrane modelingtechniques (finite element modeling, numerical methods, and coarse grainingmethodologies; and (3) techno-economic analysis and assessments of advancedmembrane-based separations, including applications for water purification,alkanes/alkenes, carbon capture, fuel cells, and more.
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PROCESSES (CONTINUED)
Membrane FoulingChair: Steven T. Weinman, [email protected]; Saif Rahaman, [email protected]
Daniel J. Miller, [email protected] is inevitable for membrane-based processes and is one of the majorchallenges for further adoption of membranes in industry. This session will highlight thefundamentals and advancements of predicting and preventing membrane fouling. Thetopics of interests for this session include: (1) The origin, phenomena and mechanismsof membrane fouling and scaling; (2) Advanced technology to monitor fouling andevaluate foulant composition; (3) Innovative strategies and membrane module designto control and prevent membrane fouling; (4) New functional membranes materials,membrane structures and procedures to minimize fouling and scaling performance ofmembrane; and (5) Life cycle cost assessment of membrane fouling in real industrialapplications. In addition, we anticipate that the contributions to this session will allowthe participants to discuss recent innovations and advances in predicting andpreventing membrane fouling and explore the energy efficiencies of possible strategiesfor controlling membrane fouling.
Microfiltration and UltrafiltrationChairs: Volodymyr Tarabara, [email protected]; William Tarpeh, [email protected]
This session will highlight recent developments and challenges in microfiltration (MF)and ultrafiltration (UF) with a strong focus on device, system, module, processinginnovations and commercialization that could be leveraged across multiple applicationareas. Papers contributed to the following topics are welcome: (1) Advances in MF andUF device design to address challenging separations and delicate products; (2) Novelsystems to enable continuous, sterile, or single-use MF, UF, and DF operations; (3)Innovative methods for integrity testing and modeling; (4) Design of MF and UFprocesses to control membrane fouling; and (5) Scalable and predictive systems andtools for high-throughput screening and process development of UF and MFapplications. Case studies demonstrating improvements in capacity, productivity, costof goods, or speed to manufacturing resulting from the use of these new MF and UFprocessing strategies are also encouraged.
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PROCESSES (CONTINUED)
Module Modeling and DesignChair: David Ladner, [email protected]; Nils Tilton, ([email protected])
This session will address recent developments and advancements in understandingthe hydrodynamics and mass transport in membrane modules and systems. Bothanalytical and computational modeling – coupled with experimental verification – hasyielded insight into fluid and solute flow. This insight has enabled the creation of newmodule designs and process configurations that allow greater water/solvent recoveriesand lower energy costs. Examples include computational fluid dynamics (CFD)modeling of spacers and membrane morphologies (patterns) for reduced membranefouling in reverse osmosis, two-phase (gas and liquid) flow for scouring in membranebioreactors, and minimizing pressure drop through design of modules tailored to gasseparations.
Process intensification, Scale up and Technoeconomic AnalysisChairs: Mahdi Malmali, [email protected]; Albert S. Kim, [email protected]; Hannah Murnen, [email protected]
Scientific breakthroughs of fundamental mechanisms and novel materials are utilizedthrough realistic, cost-effective processes for long-term, and stable operations. Thissession focuses on, but not limited to, optimization of pre-existing processes with low-energy consumption rates and low capex merits, new hybrid membrane separations tocombine multiple processes, and proof-of-concept approaches to developing novelindustrial processes. We seek modeling and combined experimental/modeling studiesthat can range from micro- to macro-scale analyses including quantum mechanics,molecular dynamics, particle hydrodynamics. computational fluid dynamics (CFD), andindustrial cost assessments. This session will be organized around the following topics:(1) Holistic modeling and data-driven approaches from material design to economicanalysis, (2) Fundamental scientific issues such as new statistical mechanics formembrane phenomena and non-equilibrium thermodynamics coupled with CFD, (3)Seamless coupling of osmotically and thermally driven processes, and (4) Industrial-scale cost-analyses as originated from technological aspects of specific membraneprocesses. All other new experimental, theoretical and computational approaches foracademic advances are also highly welcome.
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PROCESSES (CONTINUED)
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Industrial Applications of Membranes
This will be an invited-only session from leaders and innovators in industry. Results from new industrial processes and pilots can provide key insight on the advancement of a technology area. This session will focus on the learnings from industrial field pilots, and new or modified full scale processes. This section will have papers describing new industrial processes and fields pilots, their results, and key learnings. Presentations will be selected to cover all applications and membrane technology areas.
Membranes for Electrochemical ApplicationsChairs: Shudipto Dishari, [email protected]; Christopher G. Arges, [email protected]
Chairs: Dibakar Bhattacharya, [email protected]; CJ Kurth, [email protected]; Evan Hatakeyama, [email protected]
The immediate need to combat climate disruption with renewable energy sourceshas led to scientific breakthroughs and innovations in membrane technology used inelectrochemical energy storage and conversion. Renewable energy sources, such aswind and solar, are intermittent and their proliferation hinges on the maturation ofenergy storage and conversion processes. Not only has progress in electrochemicalmembranes impacted the field of energy storage and conversion, but it has alsomade an indelible impact on electrolyzers, which are used in the production ofcommodity chemicals, and electrochemical separations, such as water remediation.This session will highlight the latest trends in molecular science and engineering ofmembranes for electrochemical applications. Topics include: i.) the latestdevelopments in molecular thermodynamics and transport phenomena of thesemembranes under a diverse range of environments, ii.) new insights as to hownanoscale architectures and confinement govern membrane properties at interfacesand in the bulk, and iii.) how newly engineered membrane materials impactelectrochemical device performance.