Membrane fouling in desalination and its mitigation strategies

PS Goh, WJ Lau, MHD Othman, AF Ismail - Desalination, 2018 - Elsevier
Water scarcity at global level has called for attentions to establish new and innovative
technologies that can be tapped to provide sustainable solutions to water crisis. Membrane …

Emerging thin-film nanocomposite (TFN) membranes for reverse osmosis: A review

DL Zhao, S Japip, Y Zhang, M Weber, C Maletzko… - Water research, 2020 - Elsevier
Thin-film composite (TFC) membranes are the heart of reverse osmosis (RO) processes for
desalination and water reuse. In recent years, nanomaterials with high permeability …

A review on RO membrane technology: Developments and challenges

SS Shenvi, AM Isloor, AF Ismail - Desalination, 2015 - Elsevier
Reverse osmosis (RO) based desalination is one of the most important and widely
recognized technologies for production of fresh water from saline water. Since its conception …

High-performance polyamide thin-film-nanocomposite reverse osmosis membranes containing hydrophobic zeolitic imidazolate framework-8

J Duan, Y Pan, F Pacheco, E Litwiller, Z Lai… - Journal of membrane …, 2015 - Elsevier
A hydrophobic, hydrothermally stable metal-organic framework (MOF)-zeolitic imidazolate
framework-8 (ZIF-8) was successfully incorporated into the selective polyamide (PA) layer of …

Challenges and opportunities in functional carbon nanotubes for membrane-based water treatment and desalination

S Ali, SAU Rehman, HY Luan, MU Farid… - Science of the Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
Environmental applications of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have grabbed worldwide attentions
due to their excellent adsorption capacities and promising physical, chemical and …

Influence of oxygen-containing functional groups on the environmental properties, transformations, and toxicity of carbon nanotubes

AR Deline, BP Frank, CL Smith, LR Sigmon… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have unique physical and chemical properties that drive their use
in a variety of commercial and industrial applications. CNTs are commonly oxidized prior to …

Functional materials in desalination: A review

SF Anis, R Hashaikeh, N Hilal - Desalination, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper reviews various functional materials used in desalination. Desalination of the
abundant seawater resource has emerged as a promising technology to meet the current …

Fabrication and water treatment application of carbon nanotubes (CNTs)-based composite membranes: a review

L Ma, X Dong, M Chen, L Zhu, C Wang, F Yang… - Membranes, 2017 - mdpi.com
Membrane separation technology is widely explored for various applications, such as water
desalination and wastewater treatment, which can alleviate the global issue of fresh water …

Nanomaterials for biofouling and scaling mitigation of thin film composite membrane: A review

CS Ong, PS Goh, WJ Lau, N Misdan, AF Ismail - Desalination, 2016 - Elsevier
Biofouling and scaling are commonly encountered bottlenecks in large and small scale
installations of membrane technology for surface-, waste-or seawater treatment. The …

Improvement in desalination performance of thin film nanocomposite nanofiltration membrane using amine-functionalized multiwalled carbon nanotube

H Zarrabi, ME Yekavalangi, V Vatanpour, A Shockravi… - Desalination, 2016 - Elsevier
A modified thin film composite nanofiltration (TFC/NF) membrane was prepared by
interfacial polymerization between piperazine and trimesoyl chloride monomers and NH 2 …