Highly permeable double-skinned forward osmosis membranes for anti-fouling in the emulsified oil-water separation process

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 4537-4545

  Duong, Phuoc H H ^a   Chung, Tai Shung ^a,b   Wei, Shawn ^c   Irish, Lana ^c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c VP Technology Kraton Polymers LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPOLYMERS; EMULSIFICATION; FOULING; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

CELLULOSE ACETATE MEMBRANE; FORWARD OSMOSIS MEMBRANES; FOULING PROPENSITIES; INTERFACIAL POLYMERIZATION; INTERNAL CONCENTRATION POLARIZATIONS (ICP); MEMBRANE PERFORMANCE; PENTABLOCK COPOLYMERS; PHASE-INVERSION METHOD;

MEMBRANES;

CELLULOSE ACETATE; COPOLYMER; EMULSIFIED OIL; OIL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

ACETATE; ANTIFOULING; CELLULOSE; MEMBRANE; OSMOSIS; PARTICULATE MATTER; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PERMEABILITY; POLYMER; WASTEWATER;

ARTICLE; BIOFOULING; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; FORWARD OSMOSIS; MEMBRANE; OSMOSIS; POLARIZATION; POLYMERIZATION; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

ACRYLIC RESINS; BIOFOULING; EMULSIONS; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; OILS; OSMOSIS; PERMEABILITY; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; PRESSURE; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; SURFACE PROPERTIES; WATER; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 84898894608     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es405644u     Document Type: Article

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