A novel tannic acid - ferric (TA-Fe) complex coating was applied to commercially available cellulose triacetate (CTA) forward osmosis (FO) membrane enhance performance. Notably, the coated attained a better water/salt selectivity than control and it had mild water permeability loss of about 13.6%. Consequently, when is operated in FO system, reverse salt flux smaller as compared uncoated membra...

Many conventional practices in the production and use of water, energy, and food are unsustainable. Existing technologies and concepts can be improved with the integration of forward osmosis, a membrane-based technology that uses osmosis as its driving force. This Feature highlights five emerging applications of forward osmosis that elegantly bypass the difficult step of draw solution regenerat...

Low access to electricity is a significant problem in small and distant areas, where power intensive treatment systems like reverse osmosis can complicate handling requirements. In order mitigate the energy requirements such forward (FO) an advance option desalinate provide potable water cost effectively. this study, cellulose acetate (CA) was selected as cheap natural green polymer along with ...

forward osmosis (fo) has recently drawn attention as a promising membrane based method for seawater and brackish water desalination. in this study, we focus on the use of calciun chloride (cacl2) and potassium bicarbonate (khco3) as inorganic salt draw solution candidates due to their appropriate performance in water flux and reverse salt diffusion as well as reasonable cost. the experiments we...

The research undertaken in this paper was aimed at determining the effect of struvite precipitation, one potential products that can be obtained during digestate management, on performance non-pressurized membrane process—forward osmosis (FO). using an integrated precipitation—forward process to treat liquid changes properties organic substances present treated solution (particle size distribut...

Forward osmosis (FO) membrane is a promising technique. However, its application in desalination limited. Thus, we synthesized MIL-53(Fe)@γ-Al2O3 via solvent-thermal method to fabricate MIL-53(Fe)@γ-Al2O3/cellulose acetate (CA) composite membranes of high performance. and MIL-53(Fe) particles were studied using XRD, FITR, SEM, N2 adsorption-desorption isotherms, AFM. The structural features MIL...

We demonstrated a novel AquaporinZ (AqpZ)-incorporated double-skinned forward osmosis (FO) membrane by layer-by-layer (LbL) assembly strategy. Positively charged poly(ethyleneimine) (PEI) and negatively charged poly(sodium 4-styrenesulfonate) (PSS) were alternately deposited on both the top and bottom surfaces of a hydrolyzed polyacrylonitrile (H-PAN) substrate. Subsequently, an AqpZ-embedded 1...

Forward osmosis (FO) has received considerable interest for water and energy-related applications in recent years. However, FO not been commercialized yet because of a few reasons. The lack high-performance membrane is one the important barriers. To overcome this issue, novel thin-film composite (TFC) was successfully fabricated via interfacial polymerization with poly-L-lysine incorporated pol...

In this study, novel thin-film nanocomposite (TFN) membranes were developed by incorporating graphene oxide (GO) and Aquaporin Z (AqpZ) reconstituting nanostructure (AQN) into the polyamide (PA) active layer to improve forward osmosis (FO) performances of PA TFN membranes. First, AQN loading in was optimized, followed GO addition at various loadings until optimal FO process performance attained...

• Forward osmosis rejects haloacetic