Modeling of external and internal concentration polarization effect on flux behaviour of forward osmosis

Water Science and Technology: Water Supply

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 533-539

  Tan, C H ^a   Ng, H Y ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Concentration polarization; Modeling; Orward osmosis

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATED WATERS; CONCENTRATION POLARIZATION; CONVECTIVE DIFFUSIONS; DEVELOPED MODELS; FORWARD OSMOSIS; IMPROVED MODELS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LAYER CONCEPTS; MEMBRANE PROCESS; MODELING; MODIFIED MODELS; ORWARD OSMOSIS; SELECTIVE MEMBRANES; TRANSPORT MODELS; WATER FLUXES;

OSMOSIS;

POLARIZATION;

ADVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); MEMBRANE; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OSMOSIS; POLARIZATION;

EID: 58849116432     PISSN: 16069749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.2166/ws.2008.116     Document Type: Article

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