A critical review of transport through osmotic membranes

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 454, Issue , 2014, Pages 516-537

  Wang, Jinwen ^a,b   Dlamini, Derrick S ^c   Mishra, Ajay K ^c   Pendergast, Mary Theresa M ^a,b   Wong, Mavis C Y ^a,b   Mamba, Bhekie B ^c   Freger, Viatcheslav ^d   Verliefde, Arne R D ^e,f   Hoek, Eric M V ^a,b,c  

^a Engineering IV   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

^d TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^e GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^f DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Forward osmosis; Membrane transport; Nanofiltration; Reverse osmosis; Structure performance

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION POLARIZATION; FORWARD OSMOSIS; FORWARD OSMOSIS MEMBRANE; MASS TRANSFER MODELS; MEMBRANE PROPERTIES; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; SOLUTION-DIFFUSION; STRUCTURE-PERFORMANCE;

NANOFILTRATION; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

MEMBRANES;

ELECTROLYTE; FILLER; NANOCOMPOSITE; NANOFILM; WATER;

ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CRYSTALLIZATION; DIFFUSION; ELECTROLYTE TRANSPORT; FLOW KINETICS; MEMBRANE BIOLOGY; MEMBRANE MODEL; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NANOFILTRATION; OSMOSIS; POLARIZATION; POLYMERIZATION; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE OSMOSIS; REVIEW; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; SOLUTE; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; SURFACE PROPERTY; THERMODYNAMICS; WATER PERMEABILITY; WATER TRANSPORT;

EID: 84892876272     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: 18733123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2013.12.034     Document Type: Review

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