Patterned membranes for improving hydrodynamic properties and mitigating membrane fouling in water treatment: a review

Q Wang, W Lin, S Chou, P Dai, X Huang - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Membrane technologies have been widely applied in water treatment over the past few
decades. However, membrane fouling remains a hinderance for the widespread use of …

How RO membrane permeability and other performance factors affect process cost and energy use: A review

Y Okamoto, JH Lienhard - Desalination, 2019 - Elsevier
Reverse osmosis (RO) technology has progressed steadily over the last few decades. Those
gains were achieved through improvements in both RO membrane element performance …

[書籍][B] Handbook of membrane separations: chemical, pharmaceutical, food, and biotechnological applications

AK Pabby, SSH Rizvi, AMS Requena - 2008 - taylorfrancis.com
The Handbook of Membrane Separations: Chemical, Pharmaceutical, and Biotechnological
Applications provides detailed information on membrane separation technologies as they …

Roles and performance enhancement of feed spacer in spiral wound membrane modules for water treatment: A 20-year review on research evolvement

W Lin, Y Zhang, D Li, X Wang, X Huang - Water research, 2021 - Elsevier
Membrane technologies have been widely applied in water treatment, wastewater
reclamation and seawater desalination. Feed spacer present in spiral wound membrane …

Fouling of reverse osmosis and ultrafiltration membranes: a critical review

MFA Goosen, SS Sablani, H Al‐Hinai… - Separation science …, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
Desalination by using reverse osmosis (RO) membranes has become very popular for
producing freshwater from brackish water and seawater. Membrane lifetime and permeate …

Spiral wound modules and spacers: Review and analysis

J Schwinge, PR Neal, DE Wiley, DF Fletcher… - Journal of membrane …, 2004 - Elsevier
The operation of spiral wound modules in industrial plants is affected by many parameters,
including the operating conditions, the arrangements of the spiral wound modules in arrays …

A numerical and experimental study of mass transfer in spacer-filled channels: Effects of spacer geometrical characteristics and Schmidt number

CP Koutsou, SG Yiantsios, AJ Karabelas - Journal of Membrane Science, 2009 - Elsevier
A systematic study is presented on the effect of both Reynolds (Re) and Schmidt (Sc)
numbers on Sherwood (Sh) number, for narrow channels with spacers, closely simulating …

[HTML][HTML] Optimal design of spacers in reverse osmosis

AH Haidari, SGJ Heijman… - Separation and purification …, 2018 - Elsevier
Spiral-wound membrane (SWM) modules are the most common membrane configuration
utilized in reverse osmosis (RO) and nanofiltration. The enhancement of SWM module …

Direct numerical simulation of flow in spacer-filled channels: Effect of spacer geometrical characteristics

CP Koutsou, SG Yiantsios, AJ Karabelas - Journal of membrane science, 2007 - Elsevier
A numerical and experimental study is presented, aimed at obtaining a better understanding
of transport phenomena in spirally wound membrane elements, where feed flow spacers are …

Computational fluid dynamics applied to membranes: State of the art and opportunities

R Ghidossi, D Veyret, P Moulin - Chemical Engineering and Processing …, 2006 - Elsevier
Membrane filtration has become firmly established as a primary technology for ensuring the
purity, safety and/or efficiency of the treatment of water or effluents. In this paper, we review …