Rough or wiggly? Membrane topology and morphology for fouling control
@article{Ling2019RoughOW, title={Rough or wiggly? Membrane topology and morphology for fouling control}, author={Bowen Ling and Ilenia Battiato}, journal={Journal of Fluid Mechanics}, year={2019}, volume={862}, pages={753 - 780} }
During filtration in reverse osmosis membranes (ROM), the system performance is dramatically affected by membrane fouling which causes a significant decrease in permeate flux as well as an increase in the energy input required to operate the system. In this work, we develop a model, able to dynamically capture foulant evolution, that couples the transient Navier–Stokes and the advection–diffusion equations, with an adsorption–desorption equation for the foulant accumulation. The model is…
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