TY - BOOK AU - Xinying Wang AU - Audie Thompson AU - Hongbo Du AB - Osmotically driven membrane processes (ODMPs) including forward osmosis (FO) and pressure-retarded osmosis (PRO) have attracted increasing attention in fields such as water treatment, desalination, power generation, and life science. In contrast to pressure-driven membrane processes, e.g., reverse osmosis, which typically employs applied high pressure as driving force, ODMPs take advantages of naturally generated osmotic pressure as the sole source of driving force. In light of this, ODMPs possess many advantages over pressure-driven membrane processes. The advantages include low energy consumption, ease of equipment maintenance, low capital investment, high salt rejection, and high water flux. In the past decade, over 300 academic papers on ODMPs have been published in a variety of application fields. The number of such publications is still rapidly growing. The ODMPs' approach, fabrications, recent development and applications in wastewater treatment, power generation, seawater desalination, and gas absorption are presented in this book. DO - 10.5772/intechopen.68607 ID - OAPEN ID: 37149 KW - Physical Sciences KW - Engineering and Technology KW - Technology KW - Wastewater Engineering KW - Environmental Engineering L1 - https://www.intechopen.com/books/osmotically-driven-membrane-processes-approach-development-and-current-status LA - English LK - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/55485 PB - IntechOpen PY - 2018 SN - 9789535139225 SN - 9789535139218 SN - 9789535140603 TI - Osmotically Driven Membrane Processes - Approach, Development and Current Statusnull ER -