Aquaporin attracted attention not only of physiologists and biophysicists, but also of chemical engineers. Here we critically analyze a paper describing aquaporin-based artificial membranes, suggested for forward osmosis-based water purification (Wang et al. 2012, Small 8, pp. 1185-1190). Related papers published later by the same group are also discussed. We indicate recently developed general...

This paper was aimed to study the efficiency of forward osmosis (FO) process as a new application for treatment wastewater from textile effluent and factors affecting performance process.The draw solutions used were magnesium chloride (MgCl2), aluminum sulphate (Al2 ( SO4)3 .18 H2O), feed reactive red, disperse blue dyes.Experimental work includes operating using thin film composite (TFC) membr...

Cellulose acetate (CA) is a semisynthetic, biodegradable polymer. Due to its characteristics, CA has several applications, including water membranes, filament-forming matrices, biomedical nanocomposites, household tools, and photographic films. This review deals with topics related the which are prepared using different techniques, such as phase inversion technique. membranes considered very im...

The recent development in oil and gas industry increases the production and consumption of oil. The enormous amount of oily wastewater produced is urged to be treated to prevent humanity and environment from being threatened. Membrane technology is an appealing alternative for oily wastewater treatment due to its design simplicity, energy efficiency and environmentally benign approach. In this ...

The development of forward-osmosis (FO) desalination is significantly restricted by the lack of suitable draw agents for both high permeable flux and fast release of water. In order to address this bottleneck, a multi-layer temperature-responsive hydrogel based on poly(N-isopropylacrylamide-co-sodium acrylate) (P(NIPAAm-coSA)) was developed. The drawing layer had a high concentration of polyele...