Computer simulations of water flux and salt permeability of the reverse osmosis FT-30 aromatic polyamide membrane

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 384, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 1-9

  Luo, Yun ^a   Harder, Edward ^a,c   Faibish, Ron S ^b   Roux, Benoît ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c SCHRÖDINGER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion; Fick's law; Ions; Molecular dynamics; Sodium chloride; Solvation; Water

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC POLYAMIDE MEMBRANES; ATOMIC MODELS; ATOMISTIC MODELS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; EXPERIMENTAL VALUES; FICK'S LAW; HEURISTIC APPROACH; MD SIMULATION; MEMBRANE DENSITY; MEMBRANE MODELS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; NON EQUILIBRIUM; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY; RO MEMBRANE; SALT PERMEABILITY; SALT REJECTIONS; WATER FLUX; WATER SOLUBILITIES;

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; HEURISTIC METHODS; MEMBRANES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; OSMOSIS; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SOLUBILITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

AROMATIC POLYAMIDE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; WATER;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENSITY; DIFFUSION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SOLUBILITY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 80054835189     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: 18733123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2011.08.057     Document Type: Article

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