Pore wetting in membrane distillation: A comprehensive review

H Chamani, J Woloszyn, T Matsuura, D Rana… - Progress in Materials …, 2021 - Elsevier
Membrane distillation (MD) is an emerging technology for the desalination of brines. In some
cases, liquid penetrates into the pores of the membrane, causing pore wetting. MD's …

A critical review of membrane wettability in membrane distillation from the perspective of interfacial interactions

H Chang, B Liu, Z Zhang, R Pawar, Z Yan… - … science & technology, 2020 - ACS Publications
Hydrophobic membranes used in membrane distillation (MD) systems are often subject to
wetting during long-term operation. Thus, it is of great importance to fully understand factors …

A review of membrane wettability for the treatment of saline water deploying membrane distillation

M Yao, LD Tijing, G Naidu, SH Kim, H Matsuyama… - Desalination, 2020 - Elsevier
Membrane distillation (MD) is an alternative membrane technology that offers the capacity to
treat highly saline water including industrial wastewater, seawater, brine water from other …

[HTML][HTML] Engineering antiwetting hydrophobic surfaces for membrane distillation: A review

A Samadi, T Ni, E Fontananova, G Tang, H Shon… - Desalination, 2023 - Elsevier
Membrane distillation (MD) is an emerging membrane separation technology with great
potential for desalination, wastewater treatment and volatile resource recovery. It becomes …

Progress on the fabrication and application of electrospun nanofiber composites

M Toriello, M Afsari, HK Shon, LD Tijing - Membranes, 2020 - mdpi.com
Nanofibers are one of the most attractive materials in various applications due to their
unique properties and promising characteristics for the next generation of materials in the …

Electrospun membranes for membrane distillation: The state of play and recent advances

L Francis, FE Ahmed, N Hilal - Desalination, 2022 - Elsevier
Electrospinning is a versatile technique for the fabrication of nanofibrous, nanostructured
composite membranes for a large number of applications. This mini-review focuses on …

Fouling mitigation in forward osmosis and membrane distillation for desalination

WJ Lee, ZC Ng, SK Hubadillah, PS Goh, WJ Lau… - Desalination, 2020 - Elsevier
Freshwater scarcity is one of the grand challenges that has posed threats to the global
economy, societal stability and ecosystem balance. Desalination has been long recognized …

Photocatalytic TiO2 incorporated PVDF-co-HFP UV-cleaning mixed matrix membranes for effective removal of dyes from synthetic wastewater system via membrane …

A Yadav, P Sharma, AB Panda, VK Shahi - Journal of Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
We report membranes with UV-cleaning properties by incorporating photocatalytic porous
TiO 2 sheets (PTS)(0–5 wt%) in the PVDF-co-HFP matrix. PTS were synthesized using …

New insights of nanomaterials usage toward superhydrophobic membranes for water desalination via membrane distillation: A review

E Gontarek-Castro, R Castro-Muñoz… - Critical Reviews in …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Membrane distillation (MD) is a promising technology for seawater desalination due to the
ability to process high-salinity waters and the ability to be driven by low-grade or waste heat …

Attapulgite-based superhydrophobic coating on aluminum alloy substrate with self-cleaning, anti-corrosion and robustness

X Liu, T Zhan, B Zhang - Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, 2024 - Elsevier
In this paper, we fabricated a mechanically stable, self-cleaning, and corrosion-resistant
superhydrophobic coating on 5083 aluminum alloy substrates based on attapulgite (ATP) …