TY - JOUR
T1 - Outer-selective pressure-retarded osmosis hollow fiber membranes from vacuum-assisted interfacial polymerization for osmotic power generation
AU - Sun, Shipeng
AU - Chung, Neal Tai-Shung
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
Acknowledgements: The authors thank (1) GSK-EDB Trust Fund for the project with Grant R-706-000-019-592 and (2) Singapore National Research Foundation under its Environmental and Water Technologies Strategic Research Programme and administered by the Environment and Water Industry Programme Office (EWI) of the PUB under the project entitled "Membrane Development for Osmotic Power Generation, Part 1. Materials Development and Membrane Fabrication" (1102-IRIS-11-01) and NUS Grant R-279-000-381-279. Special thanks are due to Dr. Zhang Sui and Han Gang for their valuable suggestions. Shi-Peng Sun acknowledges IChemE for the award of "Singapore Young Chemical Engineer of the Year 2012".
PY - 2013/10/28
Y1 - 2013/10/28
N2 - In this paper, we report the technical breakthroughs to synthesize outer-selective thin-film composite (TFC) hollow fiber membranes, which is in an urgent need for osmotic power generation with the pressure-retarded osmosis (PRO) process. In the first step, a defect-free thin-film composite membrane module is achieved by vacuum-assisted interfacial polymerization. The PRO performance is further enhanced by optimizing the support in terms of pore size and mechanical strength and the TFC layer with polydopamine coating and molecular engineering of the interfacial polymerization solution. The newly developed membranes can stand over 20 bar with a peak power density of 7.63 W/m2, which is equivalent to 13.72 W/m2 of its inner-selective hollow fiber counterpart with the same module size, packing density, and fiber dimensions. The study may provide insightful guidelines for optimizing the interfacial polymerization procedures and scaling up of the outer-selective TFC hollow fiber membrane modules for PRO power generation. © 2013 American Chemical Society.
AB - In this paper, we report the technical breakthroughs to synthesize outer-selective thin-film composite (TFC) hollow fiber membranes, which is in an urgent need for osmotic power generation with the pressure-retarded osmosis (PRO) process. In the first step, a defect-free thin-film composite membrane module is achieved by vacuum-assisted interfacial polymerization. The PRO performance is further enhanced by optimizing the support in terms of pore size and mechanical strength and the TFC layer with polydopamine coating and molecular engineering of the interfacial polymerization solution. The newly developed membranes can stand over 20 bar with a peak power density of 7.63 W/m2, which is equivalent to 13.72 W/m2 of its inner-selective hollow fiber counterpart with the same module size, packing density, and fiber dimensions. The study may provide insightful guidelines for optimizing the interfacial polymerization procedures and scaling up of the outer-selective TFC hollow fiber membrane modules for PRO power generation. © 2013 American Chemical Society.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/563089
UR - https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/es403270n
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84888253772&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1021/es403270n
DO - 10.1021/es403270n
M3 - Article
C2 - 24117418
SN - 0013-936X
VL - 47
SP - 13167
EP - 13174
JO - Environmental Science & Technology
JF - Environmental Science & Technology
IS - 22
ER -