Rejection of small and uncharged chemicals of emerging concern by reverse osmosis membranes: The role of free volume space within the active skin layer

Separation and Purification Technology

Volumn 116, Issue , 2013, Pages 426-432

  Fujioka, Takahiro ^a   Oshima, Nagayasu ^b   Suzuki, Ryoichi ^b   Khan, Stuart J ^c   Roux, Annalie ^d   Poussade, Yvan ^e   Drewes, Jörg E ^c,f   Nghiem, Long D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d Seqwater   (Australia)

^e Veolia Water Australia   (Australia)

^f Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Boron; N nitrosamines; NDMA; Positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy (PALS); Reverse osmosis

Indexed keywords

LOW-PRESSURE REVERSE OSMOSIS; MEMBRANE PARAMETERS; N-NITROSAMINES; N-NITROSODIMETHYLAMINE; NDMA; POSITRON ANNIHILATION LIFETIME SPECTROSCOPY; SLOW POSITRON BEAM; WATER PERMEABILITY;

BORIC ACID; BORIDE COATINGS; BORON; MEMBRANES; NITROSAMINES; POSITRON ANNIHILATION SPECTROSCOPY;

REVERSE OSMOSIS;

EID: 84880078251     PISSN: 13835866     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seppur.2013.06.015     Document Type: Article

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