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Membranes, Volume 12, Issue 1

January 2022 - 100 articles

Cover Story: This article reports on the use of forward osmosis with polyelectrolyte draw solutions to recover water from bioreactor mixed liquors. The work was motivated by the need for regenerative water purification technologies to enable long-duration space missions. Direct- and cross-flow filtration experiments were performed to measure permeate flux and reverse solute flux selectivity, assess membrane fouling, and establish feasibility for long-term operation. The study findings begin to address key challenges for implementing osmotic membrane bioreactors in environmental control and life support systems for space applications. By utilizing a polyelectrolyte draw solute with high reverse solute flux selectivity, it is possible to overcome the need for draw solute replenishment. This is a major step toward sustainable operation in long-duration space missions. View this paper
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Articles (100)

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,284 Views
14 Pages

17 January 2022

Gas separation performance of the carbon molecular sieve (CMS) membrane is influenced by multiple factors including the microstructural characteristics of carbon and gas properties. In this work, the support vector regression (SVR) method as a machin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,599 Views
12 Pages

17 January 2022

The recovery of phosphorus (P) from waste activated sludge (WAS) is a promising approach for sustainable resource management. During the anaerobic digestion of WAS, orthophosphate is released, and this P species is favorable for adsorption recovery....

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,419 Views
21 Pages

Assessment of the Potential of Using Nanofiltration Polymeric and Ceramic Membranes to Treat Refinery Spent Caustic Effluents

  • Ana Isabel Rita,
  • Ana Rita Nabais,
  • Luisa A. Neves,
  • Rosa Huertas,
  • Maria Santos,
  • Luis M. Madeira and
  • Sandra Sanches

17 January 2022

Spent caustic effluents are very challenging due to their very hazardous nature in terms of toxicity as well as their extreme pH (approximately 12–14). Spent caustic has presented a challenge for wastewater treatment in refineries, due to its c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,870 Views
18 Pages

17 January 2022

A general finite element model and a new solution method were developed to simulate the permeances of Lintz Donawiz converter gas (LDG) components and the performance of a polysulfone membrane separation unit. The permeances at eight bars of CO, N2,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,994 Views
16 Pages

Low-Temperature Hydrophilic Pervaporation of Lactic Acid Esterification Reaction Media

  • Elena González Díaz,
  • Sonia Álvarez-García,
  • Susana Luque and
  • José R. Álvarez

17 January 2022

Esterification reactions show a limited conversion due to the presence of water, which favors the opposite reaction. The removal of water from the reaction mixture increases the production of the ester. Pervaporation is an effective dehydration techn...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,420 Views
16 Pages

Synthesis of Porous BPPO-Based Anion Exchange Membranes for Acid Recovery via Diffusion Dialysis

  • Muhammad Imran Khan,
  • Abdallah Shanableh,
  • Majeda Khraisheh and
  • Fares AlMomani

16 January 2022

Diffusion dialysis (DD) is an anion exchange membrane-based functional separation process used for acid recovery. TMA (trimethylamine) and BPPO (brominated poly(2,6-dimethyl-1,4-phenylene oxide) were utilized in this manuscript to formulate AEMs (ani...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,688 Views
12 Pages

Real-Time Monitoring of HT-PEMFC

  • Chi-Yuan Lee,
  • Fang-Bor Weng,
  • Chin-Yuan Yang,
  • Chun-Wei Chiu and
  • Shubham-Manoj Nawale

15 January 2022

During the electrochemical reaction of a high temperature proton exchange membrane fuel cell (HT-PEMFC), (in this paper HT-PEMFC means operating in the range of 120 to 200 °C) the inhomogeneity of temperature, flow rate, and pressure in the inter...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,065 Views
15 Pages

15 January 2022

For ethylene/ethane separation, a CMS (carbon molecular sieve) membrane was developed with a PAN (polyacrylonitrile) polymer precursor on an alumina support. To provide an excellent thermal property to PAN precursor prior to the pyrolysis, the stabil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,022 Views
18 Pages

15 January 2022

Membrane fouling is a dominant limit of the membrane separation process. In this research, the optimal water backwashing to solve the membrane fouling problem was investigated in the combined water treatment process of alumina MF and pure polypropyle...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,541 Views
20 Pages

New Membrane-Forming Aromatic Co-Poly(amide-imide)s: Influence of the Chemical Structure on the Morphological, Thermal and Transport Properties

  • Svetlana V. Kononova,
  • Danila A. Kuznetsov,
  • Galina N. Gubanova,
  • Elena V. Kruchinina,
  • Anatoly Ya. Volkov,
  • Milana E. Vylegzhanina,
  • Elena N. Vlasova and
  • Boris Z. Volchek

14 January 2022

Polymer film membranes are used to solve specific separation problems that dictate structural requirements. Structural and morphological parameters of film membranes based on glassy polyheteroarylenes can be controlled in the process of preparation f...

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