Improving fouling resistance and chlorine stability of aromatic polyamide thin-film composite RO membrane by surface grafting of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA)

Desalination

Volumn 367, Issue , 2015, Pages 11-20

  Liu, Meihong ^a   Chen, Qing ^a   Wang, Lizhong ^a   Yu, Sanchuan ^a   Gao, Congjie ^b  

^a ZHEJIANG SCI TECH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Ministry of Natural Resources of the People's Republic of China   (China)

Author keywords

Aromatic polyamide thin film composite membrane; Chlorine stability; Fouling resistance; Polyvinyl alcohol (PVA); Reverse osmosis; Surface grafting

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; AROMATIZATION; BODY FLUIDS; CHLORINE; COMPOSITE MEMBRANES; DESALINATION; DISSOCIATION; FOULING; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); HYDROPHILICITY; INITIATORS (CHEMICAL); MEMBRANES; POLYVINYL ALCOHOLS; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SODIUM DODECYL SULFATE; SODIUM SULFATE; STABILITY; THIN FILMS;

AROMATIC POLYAMIDES; CHLORINE STABILITY; FOULING RESISTANCE; POLY (VINYL ALCOHOL) (PVA); SURFACE GRAFTING;

MEMBRANE TECHNOLOGY;

ALCOHOL; CHLORINE; FOULING; MEMBRANE; OSMOSIS;

BOVINAE;

EID: 84925670381     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2015.03.028     Document Type: Article

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