Designing sustainable membrane-based water treatment via fouling control through membrane interface engineering and process developments

A Ilyas, IFJ Vankelecom - Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Membrane-based water treatment processes have been established as a powerful
approach for clean water production. However, despite the significant advances made in …

The effect of feed spacer geometry on membrane performance and concentration polarisation based on 3D CFD simulations

B Gu, CS Adjiman, XY Xu - Journal of Membrane Science, 2017 - Elsevier
Feed spacers are used in spiral wound reverse osmosis (RO) membrane modules to keep
the membrane sheets apart as well as to enhance mixing. They are beneficial to membrane …

CFD modeling for flow and mass transfer in spacer-obstructed membrane feed channels

M Shakaib, SMF Hasani, M Mahmood - Journal of Membrane Science, 2009 - Elsevier
The effect of spacer geometry on fluid dynamics and mass transfer in feed channels of spiral
wound membranes has been investigated. Three-dimensional computational fluid dynamics …

Energy efficiency breakdown of reverse osmosis and its implications on future innovation roadmap for desalination

A Shrivastava, S Rosenberg, M Peery - Desalination, 2015 - Elsevier
In this paper, authors breakdown the specific energy consumption for seawater and brackish
water desalination in an attempt to quantify the value of high permeability membranes on …

Pressure, flow, and concentration profiles in open and spacer-filled membrane channels

A Subramani, S Kim, EMV Hoek - Journal of Membrane Science, 2006 - Elsevier
A finite element model was developed to study momentum and mass transport in cross flow
membrane filtration systems with open and spacer-filled channels. Simulated conditions …

Modeling the effect of biofilm formation on reverse osmosis performance: Flux, feed channel pressure drop and solute passage

AI Radu, JS Vrouwenvelder… - Journal of Membrane …, 2010 - Elsevier
A two-dimensional (2-d) mathematical model describing the effect of biofilm development on
the performance of a spiral-wound reverse osmosis (RO) membrane device was developed …

[图书][B] Computational fluid dynamics in food processing

DW Sun - 2007 - taylorfrancis.com
The implementation of early-stage simulation tools, specifically computational fluid dynamics
(CFD), is an international and interdisciplinary trend that allows engineers to computer-test …

Impact of different spacer filaments geometries on 2D unsteady hydrodynamics and concentration polarization in spiral wound membrane channel

AL Ahmad, KK Lau - Journal of Membrane Science, 2006 - Elsevier
Detail study on the hydrodynamics and concentration polarization phenomenon in the
spacer-filled membrane is important to ensure concentration polarization phenomenon can …

Determination of a constant membrane structure parameter in forward osmosis processes

M Park, JJ Lee, S Lee, JH Kim - Journal of Membrane Science, 2011 - Elsevier
The membrane structure parameter (S) is an intrinsic membrane parameter used to
determine the degree of internal concentration polarization (ICP) in the porous support …

Numerical analysis of spacer impacts on forward osmosis membrane process using concentration polarization index

M Park, JH Kim - Journal of Membrane Science, 2013 - Elsevier
Understanding the mass transfer in membrane separation processes plays a crucial role in
improving the process performance. In this study, we numerically scrutinized the impacts of …