Novel anti-microbial membrane for desalination pretreatment: A silver nanoparticle-doped carbon nanotube membrane

Desalination

Volumn 376, Issue , 2015, Pages 82-93

  Ihsanullah, ^a   Laoui, Tahar ^a   Al Amer, Adnan M ^a   Khalil, Amjad B ^a   Abbas, Aamir ^a   Khraisheh, Marwan ^b   Atieh, Muataz Ali ^b,c  

^a KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

^b HAMAD BIN KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (Qatar)

^c HAMAD BIN KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (Qatar)

Author keywords

Desalination; Doped carbon nanotubes; Fouling; Impregnation; Membrane; Pre treatment; Silver nanoparticles

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBES; COMPRESSION TESTING; DESALINATION; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FILTRATION; FOULING; IMPREGNATION; MEMBRANES; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MICROFILTRATION; NANOPARTICLES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SINTERING; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; WATER FILTRATION; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY SPECTROSCOPY; YARN;

ANTIBACTERIAL PROPERTIES; BINDING MATERIALS; CONTINUOUS FILTRATION SYSTEMS; DIAMETRICAL COMPRESSION; DOPED CARBONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI (E. COLI); PRE-TREATMENT; SILVER NANOPARTICLES;

SILVER;

ADSORPTION; BIOFOULING; CARBON; DESALINATION; MEMBRANE; NANOPARTICLE; SILVER;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84940885187     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2015.08.017     Document Type: Article

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