scholarly journals Linking defects, hierarchical porosity generation and desalination performance in metal–organic frameworks

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (14) ◽  
pp. 3508-3516 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weibin Liang ◽  
Lin Li ◽  
Jingwei Hou ◽  
Nicholas D. Shepherd ◽  
Thomas D. Bennett ◽  
...  

The composite membranes with defective metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) show a significant increase in water flux, without compromising the high salt rejection.

Author(s):  
Mehdi Habibollahzadeh ◽  
Juran Noh ◽  
Liang Feng ◽  
Hong-Cai Zhou ◽  
Ahmed Abdel-Wahab ◽  
...  

High water flux and salt selectivity have been the most demanding goals for osmosis-based membranes. Osmotic pressure differences across membranes are particularly important in emerging forward osmosis and pressure retarded...


2018 ◽  
Vol 80 (3-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ngan T. B. Dang ◽  
Liza B. Patacsil ◽  
Aileen H. Orbecido ◽  
Ramon Christian P. Eusebio ◽  
Arnel B. Beltran

Water resources are very important to sustain life. However, these resources have been subjected to stress due to population growth, economic and industrial growth, pollution and climate change. With these, the recovery of water from sources such as wastewater, dirty water, floodwater and seawater is a sustainable alternative. The potential of recovering water from these sources could be done by utilizing forward osmosis, a membrane process that exploits the natural osmotic pressure gradient between solutions which requires low energy operation. This study evaluated the potential of forward osmosis (FO) composite membranes fabricated from bacterial cellulose (BC) and modified with sodium alginate. The membranes were evaluated for water flux and salt rejection. The effect of alginate concentrations and impregnation temperatures were evaluated using 0.6 M sodium chloride solution as feed and 2 M glucose solution as the draw solution. The membranes were characterized by Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR), and Contact Angle Meter (CAM). The use of sodium alginate in BC membrane showed a thicker membrane (38.3 μm to 67.6 μm), denser structure (shown in the SEM images), and more hydrophilic (contact angle ranges from 28.39° to 32.97°) compared to the pristine BC membrane (thickness = 12.8 μm and contact angle = 66.13°). Furthermore, the alginate modification lowered the water flux of the BC membrane from 9.283 L/m2-h (LMH) to value ranging from 2.314 to 4.797 LMH but the improvement in salt rejection was prominent (up to 98.57%).


2019 ◽  
Vol 132 (6) ◽  
pp. 2478-2485
Author(s):  
Hang Li ◽  
Fanchen Meng ◽  
Suoying Zhang ◽  
Liguang Wang ◽  
Matthew Li ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (47) ◽  
pp. 17130-17139
Author(s):  
Lu Feng ◽  
Hao-Bo Hou ◽  
Hong Zhou

As newly emerging proton-conducting materials, metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) have been attracting wide attention in the field of proton exchange membrane fuel cells.


RSC Advances ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 2211-2217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bo Feng ◽  
Kai Xu ◽  
Aisheng Huang

Graphene oxide (GO) was incorporated into polyimide (PI) to fabricate GO/PI mixed matrix membranes (MMMs), which show a high water flux (36.1 kg m−2 h−1) and a high salt rejection (99.9%) for desalination of 3.5 wt% seawater at 90 °C.


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