Membrane BioReactors WEF Manual of Practice No. 36

Good book with general information, guidelines, and compilation of experiences regarding design of MBR. Not oriented to actually provide support on the design of MBRs.

Great introduction to the area of Membrane Bioreactors...

This book should be much better for the money. If you simply talk with MBR suppliers you can find out the basics of an MBR system and avoid the cost as only the very basics are covered. For example the sections that should be lengthy and packed with information such as 'Membrane Fouling' are only a few pages long. Chapter 3 is supposed to cover process fundamentals and spends a lot of time on kinetics and equations straight out of Metcalf & Eddy. At this stage with over a decade of MBR experience, there should be much more on case studies and answer the questions such as 'What has worked well?" and "What hasn't worked".Only useful if you have no idea what an MBR is but an MBR supplier is a much better resource and it won't set you back $120.

Having worked with a number of different waste treatment plants including membrane bioreactors, I wanted to look up the theory as against the practice. This book had some use. I hoped it would have more information about the main issue in almost all membrane reactors, i.e. the fouling of the membranes and ways to control fouling and obtain full design flow at all times. It has been my experience that none of the plants have achieved design flows on a consistent basis and the book doesn't really answer this with only a short section on the subject of cleaning.