Water recovery and solute rejection in forward osmosis modules: Modeling and bench-scale experiments

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 505, Issue , 2016, Pages 26-35

  Benavides, Sherwood ^a   Phillip, William A ^a  

^a University of Notre Dame   (United States)

Author keywords

Desalination; Forward osmosis; Recovery rate; Separation factor; Solute permeation

Indexed keywords

DESALINATION; OSMOSIS; RECOVERY; UREA;

BENCH SCALE EXPERIMENTS; FORWARD OSMOSIS; NON LINEAR GOVERNING EQUATIONS; PREDICTED PERFORMANCE; RECOVERY RATE; SEPARATION FACTORS; SOLUTE CONCENTRATIONS; SOLUTE PERMEATION;

NUMERICAL MODELS;

CALCIUM CHLORIDE; CELLULOSE TRIACETATE; MAGNESIUM CHLORIDE; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; UREA;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BENCH SCALE EXPERIMENT; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DESALINATION; EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANT; FLOW RATE; FORWARD OSMOSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEMBRANE CURRENT; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; METRIC SYSTEM; OSMOSIS; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; SOLUTE; STATIC ELECTRICITY; THERMODYNAMICS; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84955496659     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: 18733123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2016.01.026     Document Type: Article

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