High performance hydrophilic pervaporation composite membranes for water desalination
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ArticleKAUST Grant Number
KUS-C1-018-02Date
2014-08Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/598474
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A three-layer thin film nanofibrous pervaporation composite (TFNPVC) membrane was prepared by sequential deposition using electrospraying/electrospinning. The poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) top barrier layer was first electrosprayed on aluminum foil and its thickness can be easily controlled by adjusting the collecting time. Next a polyacrylonitrile (PAN) nanofibrous scaffold was deposited by electrospinning as a mid-layer support. A nonwoven PET layer is used to complete the composite membrane. The pervaporation desalination performance of TFNPVC membranes was tested using NaCl solutions at 100. Pa and at room temperature. The TFNPVC membranes show excellent desalination performance (high water flux and salt rejection >. 99.5%) for different salt concentrations with virtually no change in performance after 50. h of operation. © 2014 Elsevier B.V.Citation
Liang B, Pan K, Li L, Giannelis EP, Cao B (2014) High performance hydrophilic pervaporation composite membranes for water desalination. Desalination 347: 199–206. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.desal.2014.05.021.Sponsors
The project is supported by the National Science and Technology Support Program (2011BAE11B01), the Opening Project of State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering (CRE-2012-C-206), the National Science Foundation of China (51373014) and the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KUS-C1-018-02).Publisher
Elsevier BVJournal
Desalinationae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1016/j.desal.2014.05.021