Highly permeable double-skinned forward osmosis membranes for anti-fouling in the emulsified oil-water separation process

Hoang Hanh Phuoc Duong, Neal Tai-Shung Chung, Shawn Wei, Lana Irish

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Abstract

Forward osmosis (FO) has attracted wide attention in recent years. However, the FO performance may be restricted due to internal concentration polarization (ICP) and fast fouling propensity that occurs in the membrane sublayer. Particularly, these problems significantly affect the membrane performance when treating highly contaminated oily wastewater. Recently, double-skinned flat sheet cellulose acetate (CA) membranes consisting of two selective skins via the phase inversion method have demonstrated less ICP and fouling propensity over typical single-skinned membranes. However, these membranes exhibit low water fluxes of
Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)4537-4545
Number of pages9
JournalEnvironmental Science & Technology
Volume48
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 26 2014

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Environmental Chemistry
  • General Chemistry

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