Effects of organic macromolecular conditioning on gypsum scaling of forward osmosis membranes

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 450, Issue , 2014, Pages 153-161

  Liu, Yaolin ^a   Mi, Baoxia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Alginate; Carboxylate functional group; Direct observation; Forward osmosis; Gypsum scaling; Organic conditioning

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYLATE FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; DIRECT OBSERVATIONS; FORWARD OSMOSIS; FORWARD OSMOSIS MEMBRANES; GYPSUM SCALING; HETEROGENEOUS CRYSTALLIZATION; QUARTZ CRYSTAL MICROBALANCE WITH DISSIPATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE;

ADSORPTION; ALGINATE; CARBOXYLATION; EXPERIMENTS; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; MACROMOLECULES; MEMBRANES;

GYPSUM;

ALGINIC ACID; BOVINE SERUM ALBUMIN; CALCIUM ION; CALCIUM SULFATE; CARBOXYLIC ACID; CELLULOSE ACETATE; HUMIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CRYSTALLIZATION; MACROMOLECULE; MEMBRANE; OSMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUARTZ CRYSTAL MICROBALANCE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84884714622     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: 18733123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2013.09.001     Document Type: Article

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