Impact of manufacture technique on seawater desalination performance of thin-film composite polyamide-urethane reverse osmosis membranes and their spiral wound elements

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 348, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 268-276

  Liu, Meihong ^a   Yu, Sanchuan ^a   Qi, Ming ^a   Pan, Qiaoming ^b   Gao, Congjie ^b  

^a ZHEJIANG SCI TECH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Chongqing Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources   (China)

Author keywords

Membrane manufacture; Reverse osmosis; Seawater desalination; Spiral wound element; Thin film composite membrane

Indexed keywords

DESALINATION PLANT; FLAT SHEETS; GLUE LINES; INTERFACIAL POLYMERIZATION; M PHENYLENEDIAMINE; MEMBRANE FABRICATION; OPTIMUM CONDITIONS; PERFORMANCE STABILITY; PERMEATE FLUX; PERMEATION EXPERIMENTS; PILOT TESTS; POLYAMIDE-URETHANE; POLYSULPHONE; SALT REJECTIONS; SEAWATER DESALINATION; SEAWATER REVERSE OSMOSIS; SEPARATION CHARACTERISTICS; SPIRAL WOUND; SYNTHETIC SEAWATER; THIN-FILM COMPOSITE MEMBRANE;

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; COMPOSITE MEMBRANES; DESALINATION; FABRICATION; PAPER SHEETING; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SEAWATER EFFECTS; THIN FILM DEVICES; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER FILTRATION;

OSMOSIS MEMBRANES;

5 CHLOROFORMYLOXYISOPHTHALOYL CHLORIDE; ISOPHTHALIC ACID; PHENYLENEDIAMINE; POLYAMIDE; SEA WATER; SODIUM CHLORIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URETHAN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESALINATION; MEMBRANE FILTER; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MEMBRANE STABILIZATION; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; MEMBRANE TECHNOLOGY; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE OSMOSIS;

EID: 72649099742     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2009.11.019     Document Type: Article

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