Membrane fouling by natural organic matter (NOM) is an inevitable phenomenon and one of the greatest hurdles in membrane filtration processes employed to treat surface water for potable water production (Bolton et al. (2006); Lahoussine-Turcaud et al. (1990)). A great deal of effort has been made to understand the nature of the membrane fouling, to...

The paper discusses studies designed to understand how graft copolymer dose affects PVDF membranes. The study uses scanning electron microscopy (SEM), contact angle measurement and pure water flux were used to characterize morphology, hydrophilicity and permeability of produced membranes....

Development of NMP CA for better wetting properties on nanofiltration membrane...

Transition metal carbides, carbonitrides, and nitrides or MXenes represent a large family of 2D materials derived from a class of ternary ceramic materials. It has a formula of Mn+1XnTx, where M is an early transition metal, X is carbon and/or nitrogen, and n ranges from 1 to 3 and T can be any functional moieties, usually -OH, -O or –F. The term...

The global water crisis demands robust technologies to support reuse of impaired water sources. Direct potable reuse (DPR) has been limited by the poor ability of available technology to completely sequester small, neutral molecules. We hypothesize that emerging contaminants of concern can be better removed with pure carbon molecular sieve (CMS) me...