Influence of solute-membrane affinity on rejection of uncharged organic solutes by nanofiltration membranes

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2400-2406

  Verliefde, Arne R D ^a,b   Cornelissen, Emile R ^b   Heijman, Sebastiaan G J ^a,b   Hoek, Eric M V ^c   Amy, Gary L ^d   Van Der Bruggen, Bart ^e   Van Dijk, Johannis C ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b KWR WATERCYCLE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHODS; ANALYTICAL MODELS; COMBINED EFFECTS; CONTACT ANGLE ANALYSIS; CONVECTION AND DIFFUSIONS; EXPERIMENTAL DATUM; FEED SOLUTIONS; MEMBRANE AFFINITIES; MEMBRANE PARAMETERS; MEMBRANE PORE SIZES; MEMBRANE PORES; NF MEMBRANES; ORGANIC SOLUTES; OVERALL MODELS; PERMEATION TESTS; REVERSE OSMOSIS MEMBRANES; RO MEMBRANES; SOLUTE PARTITIONING; STERIC EXCLUSIONS; THREE PARAMETERS;

CONTACT ANGLE; FORECASTING; NANOFILTRATION; OSMOSIS MEMBRANES; POLYMERS; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

NANOFILTRATION MEMBRANES;

FILTRATION; MEMBRANE; MODELING; OSMOSIS; SOLUTE; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

ARTICLE; CONTACT ANGLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION; MEMBRANE; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; NANOFILTRATION; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SOLUTE; STEREOSPECIFICITY; THERMODYNAMICS;

FILTRATION; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SURFACE TENSION;

EID: 64349120433     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es803146r     Document Type: Article

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