Does hindered transport theory apply to desalination membranes?

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 19, 2014, Pages 11471-11478

  Dražević, Emil ^a   Košutić, Krešimir ^a   Kolev, Vesselin ^b   Freger, Viatcheslav ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESALINATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; POLYAMIDES; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; WATER FILTRATION; WATER POLLUTION;

ATTENUATED TOTAL REFLECTIONS; DESALINATION MEMBRANES; DIFFERENT STRUCTURE; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; POLYAMIDE MEMBRANES; RANDOM RESISTOR NETWORKS; SOLUTE PARTITIONING;

OSMOSIS MEMBRANES;

ALCOHOL DERIVATIVE; AROMATIC POLYAMIDE; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; GLYCEROL; N,N DIMETHYLFORMAMIDE; SEA WATER; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; NYLON;

DESALINATION; ENGINEERING; MEMBRANE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OSMOSIS; POLYMER; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

ARTICLE; ATTENUATED TOTAL REFLECTION FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; DESALINATION; FILM THICKNESS; HINDERED TRANSPORT THEORY; HYDRAULIC PERMEABILITY; HYDRODYNAMICS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOFILTRATION; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; POROSITY; PREDICTION; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SOLUTE; THEORY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VALIDITY; WATER CONTENT; WATER PERMEABILITY; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMISTRY; DIFFUSION; OSMOSIS; SALINITY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

DIFFUSION; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NYLONS; OSMOSIS; POROSITY; SALINITY; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED;

EID: 84907929419     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es502085p     Document Type: Article

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