Membrane surface properties play a key role in the separation processes specifically in membrane distillation and non-polar solvent separation from water. For oil/water separation applications, various surface wettability characteristics, like superhydrophilic-underwater oleophobic (Wei, Sun et al. 2017, Jiang, Chen et al. 2018, Zhang, Wang et al. ...

Membrane distillation is one of a few options that have been explored for desalinating oil and gas produced waters, particularly those with total dissolved solids (TDS) concentrations in excess of 50,000 mg/L. Many of the previous efforts in this area have been limited to studying simple electrolyte solutions composed of sodium chloride. In this pr...