Hollow fibers for seawater desalination from blends of PVDF with different molecular weights: Morphology, properties and VMD performance

Polymer

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1296-1306

  Figoli, A ^a   Simone, S ^a   Criscuoli, A ^a   Al Jlil, S A ^b   Al Shabouna, F S ^b   Al Romaih, H S ^b   Di Nicolo E ^c   Al Harbi, O A ^b   Drioli, E ^a,d  

^a INSTITUTE ON MEMBRANE TECHNOLOGY   (Italy)

^b KING ABDULAZIZ CITY FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c Solvay Specialty Polymers Italy   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Blended membrane preparation; PVDF; Vacuum membrane distillation

Indexed keywords

DESALINATION; DISTILLATION; DISTILLATION EQUIPMENT; FIBERS; MEMBRANES; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MORPHOLOGY; POLYMERS; PORE SIZE; SEAWATER; TEXTILE BLENDS; VISCOSITY;

ADDITIVE COMPOSITION; BLENDED MEMBRANE; MEMBRANE DISTILLATION; POLYMER CONCENTRATIONS; POROSITY AND PORE SIZE; PVDF; SEAWATER DESALINATION; VACUUM MEMBRANE DISTILLATION;

SPINNING (FIBERS);

EID: 84896398246     PISSN: 00323861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2014.01.035     Document Type: Article

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