Forward osmosis is an emerging osmosis-driven membrane process, which has benefits of
low energy consumption, low operational pressure, easy equipment, and low fouling. This …

The specific separation properties of nanofiltration (NF) membranes lead to their application
in water treatment, resource recovery, food processing, and chemical and pharmaceutical …

Forward osmosis (FO) has gained considerable interest as an attractive membrane-based
desalination technology due to its reversible fouling and potentially low costs. Thin-film …

Issues of water scarcity and water security have driven the rapid development of various
technologies to ensure water sustainability. The forward osmosis (FO) membrane process …

Polyamide thin-film composite (PA TFC) membranes have attained much attention for
forward osmosis (FO) applications in separation processes, water and wastewater treatment …

Osmotically assisted reverse osmosis (OARO) has been proposed as an innovative solution
to recover more water from hypersaline water, surpassing the traditional RO method which is …

Membrane science and technology is growing rapidly worldwide and continues to play an
increasingly important role in diverse fields by offering high separation efficiency with low …

The recent advancements in fabricating forward osmosis (FO) membranes have shown
promising results in desalination and water treatment. Different methods have been applied …

When two streams of different salinities are mixed, Gibbs free energy of mixing is released.
This energy can be harvested and further converted to electric energy through pressure …

As a kind of pressure-driven membranes, the nanofiltration (NF) membrane and process can
separate molecules and ions with different molecular weights and valences, which are well …