Modification and characterization of ultrafiltration membranes for treatment of produced water

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 373, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 178-188

  Wandera, Daniel ^a   Wickramasinghe, S Ranil ^b   Husson, Scott M ^a  

^a South   (United States)

^b Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and School of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Antifouling; Impaired water; Sustainability; Temperature responsive; Water treatment

Indexed keywords

AFM; ANTIFOULING; ATR FTIR; BEFORE AND AFTER; COLD WATERS; CROSS FLOW FILTRATION; EMULSIFIED OIL; FLUX DECLINE; FLUX RECOVERY; FOULANTS; HIGH FLUX; IMPAIRED WATER; INITIAL VALUES; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MEMBRANE SURFACE; MEMBRANE SURFACE PROPERTIES; MODIFIED MEMBRANES; NANO LAYERS; OIL-IN-WATER EMULSIONS; OLIGOETHYLENE GLYCOLS; ORGANICS; PNIPAAM; POLY-N-ISOPROPYL ACRYLAMIDE; POLYMER GRAFTING; PRODUCED WATER; REGENERATED CELLULOSE; SALT PASSAGE; SALT REJECTIONS; SURFACE MODIFICATION; SURFACE-INITIATED ATOM TRANSFER; SUSTAINABILITY; TEMPERATURE-RESPONSIVE; TOC REMOVAL; TOPOGRAPHICAL IMAGES; ULTRA-FILTRATION MEMBRANES; WATER FLUX; WATER RINSE;

ACRYLIC MONOMERS; AMIDES; ATOM TRANSFER RADICAL POLYMERIZATION; CHEMICAL CLEANING; CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); EMULSIFICATION; EMULSIONS; FREE RADICAL REACTIONS; GLYCOLS; GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); MEMBRANES; POLYMERS; RECOVERY; SALT REMOVAL; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; ULTRAFILTRATION; WATER FILTRATION;

MICROFILTRATION;

CELLULOSE; MOLECULAR LAYER; OIL; POLYMER; SODIUM CHLORIDE; WATER;

ARTICLE; ATOM TRANSFER RADICAL POLYMERIZATION; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; EMULSION; FILTRATION; MEMBRANE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOPOGRAPHY; ULTRAFILTRATION;

EID: 79953749679     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2011.03.010     Document Type: Article

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