Water desalination by membrane distillation using PVDF-HFP hollow fiber membranes

Membrane Water Treatment

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 215-230

  Garcia Payo M C ^a   Essalhi, M ^a   Khayet, M ^a   Garcia Fernandez L ^a   Charfi, K ^a   Arafat, H ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b AN NAJAH NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Palestine)

Author keywords

Hollow fiber; Membrane distillation; Poly(vinylidene fluoride co hexafluoropropylene); Water treatment

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMICAL WATER TREATMENT; DESALINATION; DISTILLATION; FIBERS; FLUORINE COMPOUNDS; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; POLYETHYLENE OXIDES; PORE SIZE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPINNING (FIBERS); SURFACE ROUGHNESS; VOID FRACTION; VOLUME FRACTION; WATER FILTRATION; WATER TREATMENT;

DIRECT CONTACT MEMBRANE DISTILLATION; HOLLOW FIBER; HOLLOW FIBER MEMBRANES; MEMBRANE DISTILLATION; NON-SOLVENT ADDITIVES; POLY(VINYLIDENE FLUORIDE-CO-HEXAFLUOROPROPYLENE); ROUGHNESS PARAMETERS; STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS;

MEMBRANES;

EID: 84880328037     PISSN: 20058624     EISSN: 20927037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12989/mwt.2010.1.3.215     Document Type: Article

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