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Stef Depuydt, Lucy Traub, Gilles Van Eygen, Santosh Kumar, Georg Held and Bart Van der Bruggen
In this work, homogeneous, thin-film proton exchange membranes (PEMs) with superior proton conductivities and high methanol rejection were fabricated via a facile synthesis procedure. Sulfonated polyether ether ketone (sPEEK) was crosslinked via a Friede...
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Alexei Pervov and Dmitry Spitsov
Reverse osmosis is efficiently used for producing drinking water from groundwater sources containing dissolved impurities, including fluoride, ammonia, lithium, strontium, boron, arsenic, etc. The principal problems of utilizing reverse osmosis include s...
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Wuhib Zeine Ousman, Esayas Alemayehu and Patricia Luis
Fluoride is a concern for human health at high concentrations, but it is also a valuable compound with multiple applications. Thus, having a system that gives the opportunity to remove and recover this valuable element from water is highly interesting. R...
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Vincent Oriez, Nga Thi-Thanh Pham, Jérôme Peydecastaing, Philippe Behra and Pierre-Yves Pontalier
Sugarcane bagasse (SCB), a by-product of the sugar industry, is composed mainly of cellulose, hemicelluloses, and lignin, and can be used to replace petrochemical polymers in various applications. In this work, SCB was treated under mild alkaline conditi...
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Vercus Lumami Kapepula, Mar García Alvarez, Vida Sang Sefidi, Estella Buleng Njoyim Tamungang, Théophile Ndikumana, Dieu-Donné Musibono, Bart Van Der Bruggen and Patricia Luis
This study evaluates the performance of commercial reverse osmosis (RO) and nanofiltration (NF) membranes for the removal of metal ions from synthetic water and surface water carried from the north-west of Lake Tanganyika in the city of Uvira, in the eas...
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Francesca Russo, Claudia Ursino, Burcu Sayinli, Ismail Koyuncu, Francesco Galiano and Alberto Figoli
In this work, Rhodiasolv® PolarClean was employed as a more sustainable solvent for the preparation of poly(vinylidene fluoride-hexafluoropropylene) (PVDF-HFP) flat sheet membranes via phase inversion technique by coupling vapour induced phase separation...
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Ye Wee Siew, Karina Listiarini Zedda and Svetlozar Velizarov
Acid mine drainage (AMD) is a severe form of environmental pollution that has the potential to contaminate surface and ground waters by introducing heavy metals and lowering the pH. The feasibility of using nanofiltration (NF) as a potentially attractive...
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Woobin Bae and Jeonghwan Kim
The effects of operational conditions such as permeate recirculation velocity, mixing intensity, and trans-membrane temperature on the performances of hydrophobic polyethylene (PE) hollow-fiber membrane were investigated by operating the submerged direct...
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Carmela Conidi, Francesca Macedonio, Pietro Argurio, Alfredo Cassano and Enrico Drioli
Reverse osmosis (RO) was studied to reduce salinity of flue gas desulfurization (FGD) wastewaters after softening with Na2CO3·H2O and ultrafiltration (UF). Two commercial thin film composite polyamide RO membranes (SWC-25...
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Anthoula Karanasiou, Margaritis Kostoglou and Anastasios Karabelas
Vacuum membrane distillation (VMD) is an attractive variant of the novel membrane distillation process, which is promising for various separations, including water desalination and bioethanol recovery through fermentation of agro-industrial by-products. ...
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