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Title: | Insights into the influence of membrane permeability and structure on osmotically-driven membrane processes | Authors: | Wei, Jing She, Qianhong Liu, Xin |
Keywords: | Engineering::Environmental engineering | Issue Date: | 2021 | Source: | Wei, J., She, Q. & Liu, X. (2021). Insights into the influence of membrane permeability and structure on osmotically-driven membrane processes. Membranes, 11(2), 153-. https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/membranes11020153 | Project: | 1102-IRIS-07-01 | Journal: | Membranes | Abstract: | The success of osmotically-driven membrane (OM) technology relies critically on high-performance membranes. Yet trade-off of membrane properties, often further complicated by the strongly non-linear dependence of OM performance on them, imposes important constraint on membrane performance. This work systematically characterized four typical commercial osmotic membranes in terms of intrinsic separation parameters, structure and surface properties. The osmotic separation performance and membrane scaling behavior of these membranes were evaluated to elucidate the interrelationship of these properties. Experimental results revealed that membranes with smaller structural parameter (S) and higher water/solute selectivity underwent lower internal concentration polarization (ICP) and exhibited higher forward osmosis (FO) efficiency (i.e., higher ratio of experimental water flux over theoretical water flux). Under the condition with low ICP, membrane water permeability (A) had dominant effect on water flux. In this case, the investigated thin film composite membrane (TFC, A = 2.56 L/(m² h bar), S = 1.14 mm) achieved a water flux up to 82% higher than that of the asymmetric cellulose triacetate membrane (CTA-W(P), A = 1.06 L/(m² h bar), S = 0.73 mm). In contrast, water flux became less dependent on the A value but was affected more by membrane structure under the condition with severe ICP, and the membrane exhibited lower FO efficiency. The ratio of water flux (Jv TFC/Jv CTA-W(P)) decreased to 0.55 when 0.5 M NaCl feed solution and 2 M NaCl draw solution were used. A framework was proposed to evaluate the governing factors under different conditions and to provide insights into the membrane optimization for targeted OM applications. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/151877 | ISSN: | 2077-0375 | DOI: | 10.3390/membranes11020153 | Schools: | School of Civil and Environmental Engineering | Research Centres: | Singapore Membrane Technology Centre | Rights: | © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). | Fulltext Permission: | open | Fulltext Availability: | With Fulltext |
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