Effects of calcium carbonate nano-particles on the properties of PVDF/nonwoven fabric flat-sheet composite membranes for direct contact membrane distillation

Desalination

Volumn 347, Issue , 2014, Pages 25-33

  Hou, Deyin ^a   Dai, Guohua ^b   Fan, Hua ^c   Wang, Jun ^a   Zhao, Changwei ^a   Huang, Hongjing ^c  

^a RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NANCHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Calcium carbonate; Flat sheet membrane; Membrane distillation; Nano particle; Polyvinylidene fluoride

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CARBONATE; DESALINATION; FLUORINE COMPOUNDS; HYDROPHOBICITY; MEMBRANE STRUCTURES; NANOPARTICLES; PORE SIZE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

DIRECT CONTACT MEMBRANE DISTILLATION; FLAT-SHEET MEMBRANE; HYDROPHILIC POLYESTERS; MEMBRANE DISTILLATION; NON-SOLVENT ADDITIVES; PERFORMANCE STABILITY; POLYVINYLIDENE FLUORIDES; SODIUM CHLORIDE SOLUTION;

COMPOSITE MEMBRANES;

CALCIUM CARBONATE; DESALINATION; DISTILLATION; MEMBRANE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; POLYMER;

EID: 84902003075     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2014.05.028     Document Type: Article

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