Characterization and performance of nanofiltration membranes

Environmental Chemistry Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 241-255

  Agboola, Oluranti ^a   Maree, Jannie ^a   Mbaya, Richard ^a  

^a TSHWANE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

ImageJ software; Membrane characterizations; Nanofiltration membranes; Performance evaluation; Pore size; Surface morphology

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CROSSLINKING; DESALINATION; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; INFRARED REFLECTION; NANOFILTRATION; NANOFILTRATION MEMBRANES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER FILTRATION; WATER POLLUTION;

CLEAN WATERS; CRITICAL PROBLEMS; FRESH WATER; HIGH DEMAND; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; IMAGEJ SOFTWARE; MEMBRANE CHARACTERIZATION; PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCES EVALUATION; SOLUTE REJECTION;

PORE SIZE;

EID: 84899968945     PISSN: 16103653     EISSN: 16103661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10311-014-0457-3     Document Type: Review

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