Salt and water transport in reverse osmosis thin film composite seawater desalination membranes

Desalination

Volumn 368, Issue , 2015, Pages 202-213

  Zaidi, S M Javaid ^a   Fadhillah, F ^b   Khan, Z ^c   Ismail, A F ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b AL IMAM MOHAMMAD IBN SAUD ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY IMSIU   (Saudi Arabia)

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

^d UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Ion transport; Membrane; Nano filtration; Reverse osmosis; Water transport

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MEMBRANES; DESALINATION; FILTRATION; MEMBRANE TECHNOLOGY; MEMBRANES; MICROFILTRATION; REVERSE OSMOSIS; WATER FILTRATION;

ION TRANSPORTS; IRREVERSIBLE THERMODYNAMICS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; REVERSE OSMOSIS DESALINATION; SEAWATER DESALINATION; SOLUTION-DIFFUSION MODEL; THIN FILM COMPOSITES; WATER TRANSPORT;

OSMOSIS MEMBRANES;

EID: 84988286624     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2015.02.026     Document Type: Article

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