Bulk chlorine uptake by polyamide active layers of thin-film composite membranes upon exposure to free chlorine - Kinetics, mechanisms, and modeling

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 2741-2749

  Powell, Joshua ^a   Luh, Jeanne ^a   Coronell, Orlando ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; CHLORINATION; COMPOSITE MEMBRANES; DECHLORINATION; PH; RUTHERFORD BACKSCATTERING SPECTROSCOPY;

ACIDIC CONDITIONS; ALKALINE CONDITIONS; AROMATIC POLYAMIDES; POLYAMIDE ACTIVE LAYERS; RATE-LIMITING STEPS; RUTHERFORD BACK-SCATTERING SPECTROMETRY; THIN-FILM COMPOSITE MEMBRANE; UPTAKE MECHANISM;

CHLORINE;

AROMATIC POLYAMIDE; CHLORINE; POLYAMIDE; POLYSULFONE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; NYLON; SEA WATER;

BACKSCATTER; CHLORINE; MEMBRANE; OSMOSIS; PH; REACTION KINETICS; SAMPLING; SPECTROSCOPY; VOLUME;

ALKALINITY; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; CHLORINATION; DECHLORINATION; MEMBRANE; MEMBRANE DAMAGE; MODEL; PH; REVERSE OSMOSIS; REVERSE OSMOSIS MEMBRANE; SPECTROMETRY; SURFACE PROPERTY; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; DEVICES; FILTRATION; HALOGENATION; KINETICS; OSMOSIS; PROCEDURES; SPECTROSCOPY; THEORETICAL MODEL; WATER MANAGEMENT;

CHLORINE; FILTRATION; HALOGENATION; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; KINETICS; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NYLONS; OSMOSIS; SEAWATER; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 84895523087     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es4047632     Document Type: Article

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