A review on polyamide thin film nanocomposite (TFN) membranes: history, applications, challenges and approaches
This review focuses on the development of polyamide (PA) thin film nanocomposite (TPN) membranes for various aqueous media-based separation processes such as nanofiltration, reverse osmosis and forward osmosis since the concept of TFN was introduced in year 2007. Although the total number of publish...
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my.utm.590482017-02-15T00:33:03Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/59048/ A review on polyamide thin film nanocomposite (TFN) membranes: history, applications, challenges and approaches Lau, Woei Jye Gray, Stephen Matsuura, T. Emadzadeh, Daryoush Chen, J. Paul Ismail, Ahmad Fauzi TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) This review focuses on the development of polyamide (PA) thin film nanocomposite (TPN) membranes for various aqueous media-based separation processes such as nanofiltration, reverse osmosis and forward osmosis since the concept of TFN was introduced in year 2007. Although the total number of published TFN articles falls far short of the articles of the well-known thin film composite (TFC) membranes, its growth rate is significant, particularly since 2012. Generally, by incorporating an appropriate amount of nanofiller into a thin selective PA layer of a composite membrane, one could produce TFN membranes with enhanced separation characteristics as compared to the conventional TFC membrane. For certain cases, the resulting TFN membranes demonstrate not only excellent antifouling resistance and/or greater antibacterial effect, but also possibly overcome the trade-off effect between water permeability and solute selectivity. Furthermore, this review attempts to give the readers insights into the difficulties of incorporating inorganic nanornaterials into the organic PA layer whose thickness usually falls in a range of several-hundred nanometers. It is also intended to show new possible approaches to overcome these challenges in TFN membrane fabrication. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd. 2015-09-01 Article PeerReviewed Lau, Woei Jye and Gray, Stephen and Matsuura, T. and Emadzadeh, Daryoush and Chen, J. Paul and Ismail, Ahmad Fauzi (2015) A review on polyamide thin film nanocomposite (TFN) membranes: history, applications, challenges and approaches. Water Research, 80 . pp. 306-324. ISSN 0043-1354 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2015.04.037 DOI:10.1016/j.watres.2015.04.037 |
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This review focuses on the development of polyamide (PA) thin film nanocomposite (TPN) membranes for various aqueous media-based separation processes such as nanofiltration, reverse osmosis and forward osmosis since the concept of TFN was introduced in year 2007. Although the total number of published TFN articles falls far short of the articles of the well-known thin film composite (TFC) membranes, its growth rate is significant, particularly since 2012. Generally, by incorporating an appropriate amount of nanofiller into a thin selective PA layer of a composite membrane, one could produce TFN membranes with enhanced separation characteristics as compared to the conventional TFC membrane. For certain cases, the resulting TFN membranes demonstrate not only excellent antifouling resistance and/or greater antibacterial effect, but also possibly overcome the trade-off effect between water permeability and solute selectivity. Furthermore, this review attempts to give the readers insights into the difficulties of incorporating inorganic nanornaterials into the organic PA layer whose thickness usually falls in a range of several-hundred nanometers. It is also intended to show new possible approaches to overcome these challenges in TFN membrane fabrication. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. |
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