Highly Permeable Thin-Film Composite Forward Osmosis Membrane Based on Carbon Nanotube Hollow Fiber Scaffold with Electrically Enhanced Fouling Resistance

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 1444-1452

  Fan, Xinfei ^a   Liu, Yanming ^a   Quan, Xie ^a   Chen, Shuo ^a  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; MEMBRANES; NANOCOMPOSITE FILMS; NANOTUBES; POTABLE WATER; SODIUM COMPOUNDS; THIN FILMS; WATER RECYCLING; WATER TREATMENT; YARN;

COMMERCIAL CELLULOSE; FORWARD OSMOSIS MEMBRANES; FOULING RESISTANCE; INTERNAL CONCENTRATION POLARIZATIONS (ICP); POLYAMIDE THIN FILMS; PRESSURE RETARDED OSMOSIS (PRO); STRUCTURE PARAMETER; THIN FILM COMPOSITES;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

CARBON NANOTUBE; DRINKING WATER; POLYAMIDE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; FOULING CONTROL; HYDROPHILICITY; OSMOSIS; POROSITY; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; WASTE WATER; WATER MANAGEMENT;

CARBON; FOULING; OSMOSIS; WATER TREATMENT;

MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; NANOTUBES, CARBON; OSMOSIS; WASTE WATER; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 85041470630     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.7b05341     Document Type: Article

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