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Membranes, Volume 3, Issue 4

December 2013 - 12 articles

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Articles (12)

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
10,004 Views
16 Pages

16 December 2013

Nafion is one of the most common materials used for polyelectrolyte membranes and is the standard to which novel materials are compared. In spite of great interest in Nafion’s nanostructure, it is still a subject of controversy. While multiple resear...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,264 Views
9 Pages

10 December 2013

The results of investigations of flux decline during nanofiltration (NF) of lactic acid solutions using dynamically formed zirconium(IV) hydrous oxide/polyacrylate membranes (Zr(IV)/PAA) under conditions resulting in low and high lactic acid rejectio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,028 Views
9 Pages

Al2O3 Disk Supported Si3N4 Hydrogen Purification Membrane for Low Temperature Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells

  • Xiaoteng Liu,
  • Paul A. Christensen,
  • Stephen M. Kelly,
  • Vincent Rocher and
  • Keith Scott

5 December 2013

Reformate gas, a commonly employed fuel for polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs), contains carbon monoxide, which poisons Pt-containing anodes in such devices. A novel, low-cost mesoporous Si3N4 selective gas separation material was teste...

  • Article
  • Open Access
126 Citations
10,373 Views
17 Pages

21 November 2013

Poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) membranes were prepared by non solvent induced phase separation (NIPS), melt spinning and the solution-cast method. The effect of preparation methods with different membrane formation mechanisms on crystallization beh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
12,678 Views
14 Pages

Study of Hydrophilic Electrospun Nanofiber Membranes for Filtration of Micro and Nanosize Suspended Particles

  • Ramazan Asmatulu,
  • Harish Muppalla,
  • Zeinab Veisi,
  • Waseem S. Khan,
  • Abu Asaduzzaman and
  • Nurxat Nuraje

14 November 2013

Polymeric nanofiber membranes of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) blended with polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) were fabricated using an electrospinning process at different conditions and used for the filtration of three different liquid suspensions to determine...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
14,452 Views
21 Pages

8 November 2013

We have examined the gypsum (CaSO4·2H2O) scaling phenomena on membranes with different physicochemical properties in forward osmosis (FO) processes. Three hollow fiber membranes made of (1) cellulose acetate (CA), (2) polybenzimidazole (PBI)/polyethe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
10,518 Views
13 Pages

Interface Properties between Lithium Metal and a Composite Polymer Electrolyte of PEO18Li(CF3SO2)2N-Tetraethylene Glycol Dimethyl Ether

  • Hui Wang,
  • Masaki Matsui,
  • Yasuo Takeda,
  • Osamu Yamamoto,
  • Dongmin Im,
  • Dongjoon Lee and
  • Nobuyuki Imanishi

25 October 2013

The electrochemical properties of a composite solid polymer electrolyte, consisting of poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO)-lithium bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide (LiTFSI) and tetraethylene glycol dimethyl ether (TEGDME) was examined as a protective layer...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
8,962 Views
20 Pages

Testing the Chemical/Structural Stability of Proton Conducting Perovskite Ceramic Membranes by in Situ/ex Situ Autoclave Raman Microscopy

  • Aneta Slodczyk,
  • Oumaya Zaafrani,
  • Matthew D. Sharp,
  • John A. Kilner,
  • Bogdan Dabrowski,
  • Olivier Lacroix and
  • Philippe Colomban

25 October 2013

Ceramics, which exhibit high proton conductivity at moderate temperatures, are studied as electrolyte membranes or electrode components of fuel cells, electrolysers or CO2 converters. In severe operating conditions (high gas pressure/high temperature...

  • Article
  • Open Access
62 Citations
13,685 Views
23 Pages

25 October 2013

Hydrothermally stable particles of the metal-organic framework MIL-101(Cr) were incorporated into a polysulfone (PSF) matrix to produce mixed-matrix or composite membranes with excellent dispersion of MIL-101 particles and good adhesion within the po...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
8,373 Views
13 Pages

Performance Modeling and Cost Analysis of a Pilot-Scale Reverse Osmosis Process for the Final Purification of Olive Mill Wastewater

  • Javier Miguel Ochando-Pulido,
  • Gassan Hodaifa,
  • Maria Dolores Victor-Ortega and
  • Antonio Martinez-Ferez

11 October 2013

A secondary treatment for olive mill wastewater coming from factories working with the two-phase olive oil production process (OMW-2) has been set-up on an industrial scale in an olive oil mill in the premises of Jaén (Spain). The secondary treatment...

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