Surface modification of nanostructured ceramic membranes for direct contact membrane distillation

By Zachary Hendren, Jonathan A. Brant, M. Wiesner. 2009

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Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Water Science and Technology

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Nanoporous anodic aluminium oxide: Advances in surface engineering and emerging applications (2013, unknown): “oroalkylsilanes [87–89].”
Preparation and properties of PTFE hollow fiber membranes for desalination through vacuum membrane distillation (2013, background): “The relationship between the LEPw and relevant system characteristics is shown in the Laplace (Cantor) equation [27,28]:”
Superhydrophobic modification of TiO2 nanocomposite PVDF membranes for applications in membrane distillation (2012, unknown): “With this regard, superhydrophobic modification may offer another advantage to suppress the polarization since such modification usually raise the LEP [13], thus higher feed pressure and shear rates can be applied to minimize the polarizations.”
Effect of operating parameters and membrane characteristics on air gap membrane distillation performance for the treatment of highly saline water (2016, methodology): “According to the type of the condensing (cold side) design, the MD process can be classified into direct contact membrane distillation (DCMD), air gap membrane distillation (AGMD), vacuum membrane distillation (VMD) and sweeping gas membrane distillation (SGMD).”
CF4 plasma-modified superhydrophobic PVDF membranes for direct contact membrane distillation (2014, methodology): “Hydrophobization is a key step for the preparation of MD membranes including direct phase separation [8–14] and surface treatment using perfluorodecyltriethoxysilane [15], TiO2 nanoparticles deposition [16], hydrophilic sodium alginate hydrogel [17], plasma polymerization of fluoropolymer [18–20] an”
Carbon nanotubes for desalination: Performance evaluation and current hurdles (2013, background): “Since it has been previously reported that high hydrophobicity is of great importance to achieve high flux in MD [80,81], thereby the enhanced hydrophobicity upon the chemical functionalization aswell as PTFE coating has consequently led to improvement in membrane flux.”
Effect of temperature-dependent microstructure evolution on pore wetting in PTFE membranes under membrane distillation conditions (2013, methodology): “The LEP is commonly expressed using the Laplace (Cantor) equation [3, 27]:”