A new nanocomposite forward osmosis membrane custom-designed for treating shale gas wastewater

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Qin, Detao ^a   Liu, Zhaoyang ^b   Delai Sun, Darren ^c   Song, Xiaoxiao ^c   Bai, Hongwei ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b HAMAD BIN KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (Qatar)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; EMULSION; GRAPHITE; HYDROGEL; INORGANIC SALT; NANOCOMPOSITE; OIL; OXIDE; WASTE WATER;

ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; DEVICES; EMULSION; FRACKING; HUMAN; HYDROGEL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KINETICS; OSMOSIS; PROCEDURES; SALINITY; WASTE WATER; WATER MANAGEMENT;

EMULSIONS; GRAPHITE; HUMANS; HYDRAULIC FRACKING; HYDROGELS; INDUSTRIAL OILS; KINETICS; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; NANOCOMPOSITES; OSMOSIS; OXIDES; SALINITY; SALTS; WASTE WATER; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 84942761339     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep14530     Document Type: Article

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