Techniques for characterization of polyamide thin film composite membranes

Desalination

Volumn 282, Issue , 2011, Pages 78-86

  Singh, P S ^a   Rao, A P ^a   Ray, P ^a   Bhattacharya, A ^a   Singh, K ^a   Saha, N K ^a   Reddy, A V R ^a  

^a CSIR CENTRAL SALT AND MARINE CHEMICALS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Characterization; Large scale; Performance; Polyamide; Preparation; TFC RO

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LAYER; AFM; COATING DEVICE; LARGE-SCALE; MEMBRANE CASTING; MEMBRANE FLUXES; PERFORMANCE; PERMEATION EXPERIMENTS; POLYAMIDE THIN FILMS; POROUS POLYSULFONES; PREPARATION; SALT REJECTIONS; STRUCTURAL INFORMATION; TFC RO; THIN FILM COMPOSITES; WATER FLUX; ZETA POTENTIAL MEASUREMENTS;

CHARACTERIZATION; COATINGS; FILM PREPARATION; OSMOSIS MEMBRANES; POLYAMIDES; SODIUM CHLORIDE; THIN FILMS;

COMPOSITE MEMBRANES;

COMPOSITE; FILM; FLUID INJECTION; MEMBRANE; OSMOSIS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POLYMER; TESTING METHOD;

EID: 82855175282     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2011.04.039     Document Type: Article

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