An Integrated approach for characterization of polyamide reverse osmosis membrane degradation due to exposure to free chlorine

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 510, Issue , 2016, Pages 164-173

  Surawanvijit, Sirikarn ^a   Rahardianto, Anditya ^a   Cohen, Yoram ^a  

^a Engineering IV   (United States)

Author keywords

Chlorine exposure; Membrane characterization; Membrane integrity monitoring; Polyamide; Reverse osmosis

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERIZATION; CHLORINE; HYDROPHILICITY; POLYAMIDES; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; EXPOSURE CONCENTRATION; FLUORESCENT MARKERS; MEMBRANE CHARACTERIZATION; MEMBRANE INTEGRITY; PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION; SURFACE CHARACTERIZATION; SURFACE HYDROPHILICITY;

MEMBRANES;

CHLORINE; FLUORESCENT DYE; POLYAMIDE; WATER;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTACT ANGLE; DEGRADATION; EXPOSURE; HYDROPHILICITY; MEMBRANE MARKER; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SODIUM TRANSPORT; SURFACE PROPERTY; WATER PERMEABILITY; WETTABILITY;

EID: 84961114585     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: 18733123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2016.02.044     Document Type: Article

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