A novel approach to fabricate macrovoid-free and highly permeable PVDF hollow fiber membranes for membrane distillation

AIChE Journal

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 828-833

  Bonyadi, Sina ^a   Chung, Tai Shung ^a   Rajagopalan, Raj ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Desalination; Hollow fiber; Membrane contactor; Membrane distillation; PVDF

Indexed keywords

EID: 62949119405     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.11688     Document Type: Article

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