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Membranes, Volume 9, Issue 5

2019 May - 9 articles

Cover Story: As forward osmosis (FO) progresses, this process finds more prospective applications in aqueous separation. While tackling the wide margins of improvement still existing for FO, scientists are also working to promote its large-scale implementation through pilot, modeling, and design studies. This paper presents the full-scale system design of a hybrid FO-nanofiltration system, with the goal of extracting high-quality water from wastewater. Discussion on the potential, obstacles, and advantages of this system contributes to the efforts towards the rational deployment of FO in the near future. View this paper
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Articles (9)

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,980 Views
12 Pages

Effects of Operating Parameters on Ionic Liquid Membrane to Remove Humidity in a Green Continuous Process

  • Xueru Yan,
  • Alexandre Favard,
  • Stéphane Anguille,
  • Marc Bendahan and
  • Philippe Moulin

Membrane processes are promising methods to separate gases from feed streams without phase changing. A hybrid process, the combination of ionic liquids with a ceramic membrane (ILM), has been developed for humidity removal in a green continuous proce...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,676 Views
11 Pages

This work deals with direct coupling of membrane separation and photocatalytic degradation by using photocatalytic ceramic membranes. An unusual configuration is considered here, with the irradiation applied on the permeate side of the membrane in or...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,332 Views
20 Pages

The effect of talc addition on the morphology of capillary membranes formed by a thermally induced phase separation (TIPS) method was investigated in the presented work. The usability of such formed membranes for membrane distillation was evaluated....

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
7,280 Views
16 Pages

In this study, we introduce a through-plane electrochemical measurement cell for proton conducting polymer membranes (PEM) with the ability to vary temperature and humidity. Model Nafion and 3M membranes, as well as anisotropic composite membranes, w...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
5,431 Views
10 Pages

Triple-Layer Nanofiber Membranes for Treating High Salinity Brines Using Direct Contact Membrane Distillation

  • Mustafa Al-Furaiji,
  • Jason T. Arena,
  • Jian Ren,
  • Nieck Benes,
  • Arian Nijmeijer and
  • Jeffrey R. McCutcheon

A composite, three-layered membrane for membrane distillation was prepared from electrospun polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) nanofibers supported by commercial polyethersulfone (PES) nanofiber based nonwoven from E.I. duPont de Nemours company (DuPont)...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
7,058 Views
13 Pages

Hybrid Forward Osmosis–Nanofiltration for Wastewater Reuse: System Design

  • Mattia Giagnorio,
  • Francesco Ricceri,
  • Marco Tagliabue,
  • Luciano Zaninetta and
  • Alberto Tiraferri

The design of a hybrid forward osmosis–nanofiltration (FO–NF) system for the extraction of high-quality water from wastewater is presented here. Simulations were performed based on experimental results obtained in a previous study using real wastewat...

  • Review
  • Open Access
27 Citations
11,636 Views
70 Pages

Structures, Properties, and Performances—Relationships of Polymeric Membranes for Pervaporative Desalination

  • Nayan Ranjan Singha,
  • Mrinmoy Karmakar,
  • Pijush Kanti Chattopadhyay,
  • Sagar Roy,
  • Mousumi Deb,
  • Himarati Mondal,
  • Manas Mahapatra,
  • Arnab Dutta,
  • Madhushree Mitra and
  • Joy Sankar Deb Roy

For the fulfilment of increasing global demand and associated challenges related to the supply of clean-and-safe water, PV has been considered as one of the most attractive and promising areas in desalinating salty-water of varied salinities. In perv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,283 Views
14 Pages

Membrane distillation (MD) is a relatively new and underdeveloped separation process which can be classified as a green technology. However, in order to investigate its dark points, sensitivity analysis and optimization studies are critical. In this...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,441 Views
11 Pages

“Intrinsic” Anion Exchange Polymers through the Dissociation of Strong Basic Groups: PPO with Grafted Bicyclic Guanidines

  • Riccardo Narducci,
  • Gianfranco Ercolani,
  • Raul Andres Becerra-Arciniegas,
  • Luca Pasquini,
  • Philippe Knauth and
  • Maria Luisa Di Vona

We synthesized anion exchange polymers by a reaction of chloromethylated poly(2,6-dimethyl-1,4-phenylene)oxide (PPO) with strongly basic 1,5,7-triazabicyclo[4.4.0]dec-5-ene (TBD). TBD contains secondary and tertiary amine groups in the guanidine port...

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