Advances in membrane materials: Desalination membranes based on directly copolymerized disulfonated poly(arylene ether sulfone) random copolymers

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 619-624

  Xie, Wei ^a   Park, Ho Bum ^a,b   Cook, Joseph ^a   Lee, Chang Hyun ^c   Byun, Gwangsu ^c   Freeman, Benny D ^a   McGrath, James E ^c  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^c VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Desalination membranes; Disulfonated poly(arylene ether sulfone) copolymers; Reverse osmosis; Selectivity; Trade off

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; CHLORINE; COPOLYMERIZATION; COPOLYMERS; DESALINATION; ETHERS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SULFONATION; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; WATER FILTRATION;

DESALINATION MEMBRANES; DISULFONATED POLY(ARYLENE ETHER SULFONE); DISULFONATED POLY(ARYLENE ETHER SULFONE) COPOLYMERS; MEMBRANE MATERIAL; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; RANDOM COPOLYMER; SALT PERMEABILITY; SALT REJECTIONS; SALT TRANSPORT; WATER PERMEABILITY;

OSMOSIS MEMBRANES;

CHLORINE; COPOLYMER; POLY(ARYLENE ETHER SULFONE); SODIUM CHLORIDE; SULFONE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

CHLORINE; DESALINATION; MEMBRANE; OSMOSIS; PERMEABILITY; POLYMER; SALT WATER; SULFONATE (SALT); TRADE-OFF;

ACIDIFICATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESALINATION; DISSOLUTION; MAGNITUDE ESTIMATION METHOD; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; OSMOSIS; PH; POLYMERIZATION; SULFONATION; WATER PERMEABILITY; WATER QUALITY; WATER TRANSPORT;

EID: 85000259326     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2010.883     Document Type: Article

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