Current and Future Application for Pressure-Driven Membrane Separation Technology in the Marine-based Resources Processing: A Review

Nowadays, membranes are a superior engineering technology, and their utilization has been extensively applied in the desalination of seawater and brackish water, water purification, food and beverage, pharmaceutical, biotechnology. The fast growth of innovation and development of membrane science and technologies has resolved the emergence of pressure-based membrane separation technology as a valuable, viable, and non-thermal separation unit operation in chemical engineering. This review focuses on a state-of-the-art implementation in membrane separation technology to various product commodities in the marine-based resources, particularly on the fundamentals of pressure-driven membrane separation processes, formation of thin-film composite (TFC) membrane, classification of membrane configurations, the applications of the pressure-driven membrane, benefits, and drawbacks, and prospects. In this review, pressure-driven polymeric membrane separation techniques including microfiltration (MF), ultrafiltration (UF), nanofiltration (NF) and hyperfiltration (HF), or reverse osmosis (RO) can be used to explore and implement marine-based resources, such as freshwater from seawater or brackish, surimi by-product, fish gelatin, fish sauce (moromi), and algae. Exploration of potential marine-based resources using a membrane-based separation process has great significance. The application of pressure-driven membrane separation technology on marine-based resources has a novelty to be applied in Indonesia. This review gives an overview of a sustainable approach to convert and recover marine-based resources into valuable products to achieve green and environmental-friendly based technology.