Atomistic simulation of water and salt transport in the reverse osmosis membrane FT-30

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 139, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-16

  Kotelyanskii, M J ^a,c   Wagner, N J ^c   Paulaitis, M E ^b,c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^c University of Delaware   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion; Liquid permeability and separations; Reverse osmosis; Theory; Water sorption and diffusion

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROSSLINKING; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); DIFFUSION; MASS TRANSFER; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; POLYAMIDES; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SEPARATION; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SORPTION; WATER;

ATOMISTIC SIMULATION; JUMP DIFFUSION PROCESS; REVERSE OSMOSIS MEMBRANE;

OSMOSIS MEMBRANES;

POLYAMIDE; POLYMER; SODIUM CHLORIDE; WATER;

COMPUTER MODELING; MEMBRANE; REVERSE OSMOSIS; TRANSPORT;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHLORIDE TRANSPORT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; DENSITY; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION SCATTERING; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SODIUM TRANSPORT; SOLVATION; WATER TRANSPORT;

EID: 0032481437     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-7388(97)00220-2     Document Type: Article

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