Morphological comparison of 3d printed feed spacers for spiral wound membrane modules

Proceedings of the International Conference on Progress in Additive Manufacturing

Volumn 0, Issue , 2014, Pages 145-150

  Tan, W S ^a,b   Chua, C K ^b   Fane, A G ^a,c   An, J ^b   Chong, T H ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVES; FUSED DEPOSITION MODELING; MASS TRANSFER; STORM SEWERS; WATER TREATMENT;

3-D PRINTING; COMPLEX GEOMETRIES; DIMENSIONAL ACCURACY; FEED CHANNEL; FEED SPACERS; SPIRAL WOUND MEMBRANES; SPIRAL-WOUND MODULE;

MEMBRANE TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84947288464     PISSN: 24248967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3850/978-981-09-0446-3_032     Document Type: Conference Paper

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