Permeate Flux in Ultrafiltration Processes—Understandings and Misunderstandings [PDF]
Membranes, 2022 Concentration polarization refers to the rapid emergence of concentration gradients at a membrane/solution interface resulting from selective transfer through the membrane.
Robert W. Field, Jun Jie Wu
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Prediction of Permeate Flux in Ultrafiltration Processes: A Review of Modeling Approaches [PDF]
Membranes, 2021 In any membrane filtration, the prediction of permeate flux is critical to calculate the membrane surface required, which is an essential parameter for scaling-up, equipment sizing, and cost determination.
Carolina Quezada +4 more
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Predicting kinetics of water-rich permeate flux through photocatalytic mesh under visible light illumination [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2021 Membrane-based separation technologies are attractive to remediating unconventional water sources, including brackish, industrial, and municipal wastewater, due to their versatility and relatively high energy efficiency.
Bishwash Shrestha +3 more
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Efficient Estimation of Permeate Flux of Asymmetric Ceramic Membranes for Vacuum Membrane Distillation [PDF]
Molecules, 2022 Ceramic membranes have the advantages of high mechanical strength and thermal stability and are promising candidates for membrane distillation. Ceramic membranes are generally designed to have a multilayer structure with different pore sizes to create a ...
Kaiyun Fu +5 more
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Theoretical and Experimental Studies of Permeate Fluxes in Double-Flow Direct-Contact Membrane Distillation (DCMD) Modules with Internal Recycle [PDF]
MembranesA new DCMD module design that introduces an insulation barrier of negligible thickness to divide the open duct of the hot-saline feed into two subchannels for dual-flow operation was investigated. This configuration enables one subchannel to operate in a
Chii-Dong Ho +3 more
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Effects of microalgal concentration and pH with flocculant on microfiltration [PDF]
Chemical Industry and Chemical Engineering Quarterly, 2023 To make algal biomass a suitable feedstock for fuel and bioproducts, a practical way of dewatering and concentrating algal cells must be devised. In this study, a system comprising microfiltration membranes combined with a flocculant was developed on a ...
Mendes Ana Luiza +5 more
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Microfiltration of wheat starch suspensions using multichannel ceramic membrane [PDF]
Hemijska Industrija, 2011 This work investigates influence of different process parameters such as transmembrane pressure, flow rate and concentration of wheat starch suspension on the average permeate flux and permeate flux decline.
Ikonić Bojana B. +5 more
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Effect of Surfactants on Reverse Osmosis Membrane Performance
Separations, 2023 The aim of this study was to evaluate the performance of a reverse osmosis (RO) membrane in surfactant removal using various surfactant model aqueous solutions.
Aymen Halleb +3 more
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Selectivity as a function of membrane thickness: gas separation and pervaporation [PDF]
, 1994 In this article, the pervaporation selectivity as a function of the membrane thickness is studied for the dehydration of acetic acid. From this study, it appeared that the selectivity of polysulfone (PSF), poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC), and ...
Koops, G.H. +5 more
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Membranes, 2022 The use of membrane filtration as a downstream process for microbial biomass harvesting is hampered due to the low permeate flux values achieved during the microfiltration of fermentation broths.
Aleksandar Jokić +5 more
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