Fabrication and characterization of microfiltration blended membranes

Desalination and Water Treatment

Volumn 52, Issue 10-12, 2014, Pages 1833-1840

  Farrukh, Sarah ^a   Hussain, Arshad ^a   Iqbal, Nadeem ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Blended membrane; Contact angle; Hydrophilic; Hydrophobic; Polypropylene (PP); Thermally induced phase separation (TIPS); Thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU)

Indexed keywords

FILTRATION; HYDROPHOBICITY; MANUFACTURING; MEMBRANE; METHANOL; POLYMER; POROSITY; RESIN; SEPARATION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WATER EXCHANGE;

EID: 84897649516     PISSN: 19443994     EISSN: 19443986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19443994.2013.792013     Document Type: Article

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