Effect of pH on the ageing of reverse osmosis membranes upon exposure to hypochlorite

Desalination

Volumn 309, Issue , 2013, Pages 97-105

  Donose, Bogdan C ^a   Sukumar, Subash ^a   Pidou, Marc ^a   Poussade, Yvan ^b,c   Keller, Jurg ^a   Gernjak, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b Veolia Water Australia   (Australia)

^c NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Hydrolysis; Membrane ageing; Polyamide; Ring chlorination

Indexed keywords

AMIDES; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHLORINATION; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; HYDROLYSIS; PH; POLYAMIDES; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION); BENCHMARKING;

COMPETING MECHANISMS; DENSITY OF DEFECTS; HYPOCHLORITE SOLUTIONS; HYPOCHLOROUS ACIDS; PERFORMANCE INDICATORS; PERMEABILITY INCREASE; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; SURFACE HYDROLYSIS; AFM; AMIDE GROUPS; BRACKISH WATER; EFFECT OF PH; HYPOCHLORITE ION; IR DATA; PERFORMANCE TESTS; RO MEMBRANE; SALT REJECTIONS;

OSMOSIS MEMBRANES; REVERSE OSMOSIS;

CHLORINATION; DESALINATION; FTIR SPECTROSCOPY; HYDROLYSIS; MEMBRANE; OSMOSIS; PARAMETERIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PERMEABILITY; PH; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; BRACKISH WATER; ROUGHNESS;

EID: 84870951368     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2012.09.027     Document Type: Article

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