Membrane filtration is a filtration method for separating water from soluble substances, such as oils, organics materials (soaps), suspended solids and metals (ionic or particulate).
It can be used both for eliminating the waste water pollutants and to produce process water, as well any separation of molecules in a liquid medium.
Filtration ceramic membranes is generally used as an alternative to filtration organic membranes in the following cases :
- Viscous liquid filtration
- High temperature Filtration
- Liquid filtration incompatible with organic membranes