Enhanced partitioning and transport of phenolic micropollutants within polyamide composite membranes

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 3377-3383

  Drazevic, Emil ^a   Bason, Sarit ^b   Kosutic, Kresimir ^a   Freger, Viatcheslav ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZOQUINONES; BISPHENOL A; CONCENTRATION RANGES; ELECTROCHEMICAL TECHNIQUES; FTIR; HIGH AFFINITY; HIGH CONCENTRATION; HYDRAULIC PERMEABILITY; IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MEMBRANE CHARACTERISTICS; MICROPOLLUTANTS; ORGANIC SOLUTES; PARTITIONING COEFFICIENTS; PHENOLIC COMPOUNDS; POLYAMIDE COMPOSITE MEMBRANES; POLYAMIDE MEMBRANES; RO MEMBRANE; SOLUTE CONCENTRATIONS; SUBSTITUTED PHENOL; TOXIC POLLUTANTS; WATER PURIFICATION;

CHRONOAMPEROMETRY; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; KETONES; NANOFILTRATION; REVERSE OSMOSIS; WATER SUPPLY;

PHENOLS;

BENZOQUINONE; HYDROQUINONE; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; POLYAMIDE;

COMPOSITE; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ISOTHERM; MEMBRANE; OSMOSIS; PERMEABILITY; PHENOLIC COMPOUND; SOLUTE; SPECTROMETRY; ULTRAFILTRATION;

ARTICLE; CHRONOAMPEROMETRY; DIFFUSION; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NANOFILTRATION; PERMEABILITY; POLLUTANT; REVERSE OSMOSIS;

BENZOQUINONES; DIFFUSION; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; FILTRATION; HYDROQUINONES; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; NYLONS; OSMOSIS; PERMEABILITY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 84858640772     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es204188j     Document Type: Article

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