Environmental Science and Engineering

Jatinder Kumar Ratan

Deepak Sahu
Nitin Naresh Pandhare
Anjireddy Bhavanam Editors

Advances
in Chemical, Bio
and Environmental
Engineering
Potential Application of Carbon
Nanotubes Membranes in Water
and Wastewater Treatment: A Review

Ashish Kumar Pandey and M. Laxmi Deepak Bhatlu

Abstract Affordable and good quality water is one of the significant universal chal-
lenges. Due to continuous growth in the world’s population, industrial development,
social process and immense agriculture use, polluted water becomes more compli-
cated and challenging to remove, alarms water scarcity in several areas, and this
challenge is rising at full tilt. Additionally world also facing to supply fresh and
good quality water at lower treatment costs. Thus proper wastewater treatment or
reuse has become a common necessity to supply good quality water demand. In this
regard, carbon nanotubes based membranes, due to their extraordinary properties
such as high surface area, high stability, great flexibility, electrochemical, magnetic
properties, tunable pore size and antimicrobial activity, provide huge opportunities in
wastewater treatment application. Carbon nanotubes membranes show an excellent
impact on removing suspended particles, particulate matter, microorganisms, chem-
ical and biological contaminants from wastewater. In this paper potential application
of carbon nanotubes membranes for water and waste water treatment are compre-
hensively reviewed. Furthermore, key challenges and future perspectives for carbon
nanotubes membranes are also briefly outlined.

Keywords Nanomaterials · Carbon nanotubes · Membranes · Water treatment

Abbreviations

CNTs Carbon nanotubes

SWNTs Single-walled carbon nanotubes

A. K. Pandey (B)
Department of Chemical Engineering, Institute of Engineering and Technology, Lucknow
226021, India
e-mail: akp0510@gmail.com
M. Laxmi Deepak Bhatlu
Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Karpagam Academy of Higher
Education, Coimbatore 641023, India

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