Hydrophobic polyvinylidene fluoride membrane modified with silica nanoparticles and silane for succinic acid purification using osmotic distillation process

• Main Authors: Jun Ying Tan,, Wei Lun Ang,, Abdul Wahab Mohammad,
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2021
• Online Access: http://journalarticle.ukm.my/16480/1/10.pdf; http://journalarticle.ukm.my/16480/; https://www.ukm.my/jkukm/volume-331-2021/

Recently, osmotic distillation (OD) has emerged as an alternative process for the concentration and purification of heat sensitive components. However, OD performance was severely affected by membrane fouling and wetting, which could be minimized through membrane surface roughness creation and s...