Superior Antifouling Capability of Hydrogel Forward Osmosis Membrane for Treating Wastewaters with High Concentration of Organic Foulants

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 1421-1428

  Qin, Detao ^a   Liu, Zhaoyang ^b   Liu, Zhi ^c   Bai, Hongwei ^a   Sun, Darren Delai ^d  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b HAMAD BIN KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (Qatar)

^c SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL CLEANING; EFFICIENCY; FILTRATION; HYDROGELS; MEMBRANES; MICROFILTRATION; POLLUTION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; FORWARD OSMOSIS MEMBRANE; FORWARD OSMOSIS MEMBRANES; FOULING PROPENSITIES; HIGH-STRENGTH ORGANIC WASTEWATERS; MEMBRANE FILTRATIONS; SEPARATION EFFICIENCY; ULTRATHIN HYDROGELS;

ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

ALGINIC ACID; HUMIC ACID; WATER;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; CLEANING; CONTACT ANGLE; CROSS LINKING; FOULING CONTROL; HYDROGEL; HYDROPHILICITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; MEMBRANE; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; MEMBRANE TECHNOLOGY; OSMOSIS; PARTICLE SIZE; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WETTABILITY; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; WASTE WATER; WATER MANAGEMENT;

HYDROGELS; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; OSMOSIS; WASTE WATER; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 85041478784     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.7b04838     Document Type: Article

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