Preparation and properties of PVDF composite hollow fiber membranes for desalination through direct contact membrane distillation

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 405-406, Issue , 2012, Pages 185-200

  Hou, Deyin ^a   Wang, Jun ^a   Sun, Xiangcheng ^b   Ji, Zhongguang ^a   Luan, Zhaokun ^a  

^a RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcium carbonate; Composite membrane; Mechanical properties; Membrane distillation; Polyvinylidene fluoride

Indexed keywords

CASTING SOLUTIONS; COMPOSITE FIBERS; COMPOSITE HOLLOW FIBER MEMBRANE; CRYSTALLINITY DEGREE; DIRECT CONTACT MEMBRANE DISTILLATION; FEED INLET TEMPERATURE; HOLLOW FIBER; HOLLOW FIBER MEMBRANES; INLET TEMPERATURE; MEMBRANE DISTILLATION; MEMBRANE POROSITY; NON-SOLVENTS; PERFORMANCE STABILITY; PERMEATE FLUX; PHASE INVERSION; POLYVINYLIDENE FLUORIDES; PREPARATION AND PROPERTIES; PVDF MEMBRANE; SODIUM CHLORIDE SOLUTION; THERMAL LOSS; TRANSMEMBRANES;

CALCIUM CARBONATE; COMPOSITE MEMBRANES; CONTACT ANGLE; DESALINATION; FIBERS; HYDROPHOBICITY; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; NANOPARTICLES; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SPINNING (FIBERS); SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WATER FILTRATION;

MEMBRANES;

CALCIUM CARBONATE; LITHIUM CHLORIDE; MACROGOL; NANOPARTICLE; POLYVINYLIDENE FLUORIDE;

ARTICLE; COMPOSITE MATERIAL; DESALINATION; DISTILLATION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HOLLOW FIBER MEMBRANE; HYDROPHOBICITY; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MORPHOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE PROPERTY; THERMOSTABILITY;

EID: 84859439047     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: 18733123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2012.03.008     Document Type: Article

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