Minimizing the instant and accumulative effects of salt permeability to sustain ultrahigh osmotic power density

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 10085-10092

  Zhang, Sui ^a   Chung, Tai Shung ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH HYDRAULIC PRESSURE; HIGH POWER DENSITY; HOLLOW FIBER MEMBRANES; MAXIMUM POWER DENSITY; OPERATING PRESSURE; PRESSURE-RETARDED OSMOSIS; STRUCTURAL PARAMETER; WATER PERMEABILITY;

OPTIMIZATION; OSMOSIS;

DEIONIZED WATER;

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOFILM; MEMBRANE; OSMOSIS; PERMEABILITY; POLLUTION EFFECT; SALT;

ARTICLE; CONDUCTANCE; DENSITY; HOLLOW FIBER MEMBRANE; HYDRAULIC PERMEABILITY; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; OSMOSIS; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; POLARIZATION; POLYMERIZATION; TENSILE STRENGTH; WATER PERMEABILITY;

MEMBRANES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PERMEABILITY; POLYMERS; RENEWABLE ENERGY; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SULFONES;

EID: 84883497794     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es402690v     Document Type: Article

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