Water permeability and water/salt selectivity tradeoff in polymers for desalination

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作者
Geise, Geoffrey M. [2 ,3 ]
Park, Ho Bum [1 ]
Sagle, Alyson C. [2 ,3 ]
Freeman, Benny D. [2 ,3 ]
McGrath, James E. [4 ,5 ]
机构
[1] Hanyang Univ, WCU Dept Energy Engn, Seoul 133791, South Korea
[2] Univ Texas Austin, Dept Chem Engn, Austin, TX 78758 USA
[3] Univ Texas Austin, Ctr Energy & Environm Resources, Austin, TX 78758 USA
[4] Virginia Polytech Inst & State Univ, Macromol & Interfaces Inst, Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA
[5] Virginia Polytech Inst & State Univ, Dept Chem, Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
Solution-diffusion theory; Reverse osmosis; Desalination; Water permeability; Water/salt selectivity; SODIUM-CHLORIDE; DIFFUSION; MEMBRANES; SOLUBILITY; SEPARATION; TRANSPORT; PRESSURE; COPOLYMERS; MODEL; STATE;
D O I
10.1016/j.memsci.2010.11.054
中图分类号
TQ [化学工业];
学科分类号
0817 ;
摘要
Polymer membrane-based desalination (e.g., reverse osmosis (RO) and nanofiltration (NF)) has been extensively developed since the 19605 and is a well-established process. The separation performance of desalination membranes is usually described in terms of water flux (or permeance) and salt rejection. Based on a survey of available data, water permeance and NaCl rejection are often inversely correlated, and there may be an upper bound, similar to that observed in gas separation membranes, beyond which there are very few data points. However, water permeance and salt rejection are not intrinsic material properties since they are influenced by sample size (i.e., membrane thickness in the case of permeance) and measurement variables (e.g., pressure and salt concentration in the case of salt rejection). Use of water permeability, rather than water flux or permeance, and water/salt permeability selectivity, rather than rejection, in a tradeoff analysis provides a clearer comparison of properties that depend only on the fundamental transport characteristics of the materials under study. When water and salt transport data are presented on a log-log plot of water permeability versus water/NaCl permeability selectivity, a tradeoff relation and upper bound are observed. Both water/NaCl solubility and diffusivity selectivity contribute to high water/NaCl permeability selectivity, but diffusivity selectivity is the dominant factor. Both solubility selectivity and diffusivity selectivity exhibit tradeoff and upper bound features when plotted as a function of water solubility and water diffusivity, respectively; these correlations combine mathematically, in accord with the solution diffusion model, to yield the observed tradeoff relation and upper bound correlation between water permeability and water/salt selectivity. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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页数:9
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