Kieran Fung , Yuekang Li , Shouhong Fan , Apresio Kefin Fajrial , Yifu Ding , Xiaoyun Ding
{"title":"Acoustically excited microstructure for on-demand fouling mitigation in a microfluidic membrane filtration device","authors":"Kieran Fung , Yuekang Li , Shouhong Fan , Apresio Kefin Fajrial , Yifu Ding , Xiaoyun Ding","doi":"10.1016/j.memlet.2021.100012","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.memlet.2021.100012","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Membrane separation is widely used in food, pharmaceutical and water treatment industries but suffers a longstanding challenge of fouling. In this article, acoustically excited microstructures are demonstrated as a new mechanism to mitigate membrane fouling and remove cake layer aggregations formed on a microfluidic membrane-on-chip device. With acoustic streaming induced by oscillating microstructures near the membrane surface, cake layer fouling was effectively broken up and removed on the acoustofluidic membrane separation device within 100 milliseconds. The device is simple to fabricate and offers direct observation of crossflow microfiltration across the device membrane, giving valuable insight to particle fouling events often unobtainable in traditional membrane device configurations. The device bolsters advantages like label-free and reagent-free particle separation and in situ membrane cleaning during separation, providing a new mechanism for membrane separation applications used across industry.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100805,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Membrane Science Letters","volume":"2 1","pages":"Article 100012"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S277242122100012X/pdfft?md5=531394a96b888d8f968e08457e0938ff&pid=1-s2.0-S277242122100012X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91538437","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rifan Hardian , Robin M. Cywar , Eugene Y.-X. Chen , Gyorgy Szekely
{"title":"Sustainable nanofiltration membranes based on biosourced fully recyclable polyesters and green solvents","authors":"Rifan Hardian , Robin M. Cywar , Eugene Y.-X. Chen , Gyorgy Szekely","doi":"10.1016/j.memlet.2022.100016","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.memlet.2022.100016","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Herein, we report a new class of biosourced nanofiltration membranes based on chemically recyclable aliphatic polyesters (P(4,5-T6GBL)) and the use of green solvents. Given their chemical recyclability and potential biodegradability, these polyester membranes were designed to have a sustainable lifecycle. The effect of membrane thickness and solvent/non-solvent diffusivity on membrane morphology and organic solvent nanofiltration were investigated. Long-term membrane stability was tested in a continuous crow-flow filtration rig over a week, which exhibited stable methanol permeance at 8.6 ± 0.1 L m<sup>−2</sup> h<sup>−1</sup> bar<sup>−1</sup>. The rejection profiles of the pharmaceuticals oleuropein (540 g mol<sup>−1</sup>) and roxithromycin (837 g mol<sup>−1</sup>) were also found to be stable at 87% and 100%, respectively.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100805,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Membrane Science Letters","volume":"2 1","pages":"Article 100016"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772421222000046/pdfft?md5=425824ea3c11cd156c3348b644336c61&pid=1-s2.0-S2772421222000046-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75888966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P.M. Biesheuvel , J.E. Dykstra , S. Porada , M. Elimelech
{"title":"New parametrization method for salt permeability of reverse osmosis desalination membranes","authors":"P.M. Biesheuvel , J.E. Dykstra , S. Porada , M. Elimelech","doi":"10.1016/j.memlet.2021.100010","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.memlet.2021.100010","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Reverse osmosis (RO) is the most important membrane technology for the desalination of water. Measured water and salt fluxes are traditionally analyzed in the context of the solution-diffusion (SD) model which leads to a water permeability, <em>A</em>, and a salt permeability, <em>B</em>. However, this parametrization of the salt flux is not correct for water desalination by RO membranes, because these membranes show markedly different retentions for different feed salt concentrations, a classical observation in the literature, and this effect is not captured by the SD model. Thus, the traditional salt permeability <em>B</em> is not an intrinsic property of these membranes. We present a new analysis for desalination of a 1:1 salt, which follows from a transport theory that is based on the assumption that coions are strongly excluded from the membrane, and we demonstrate that it accurately describes a large dataset of salt retention by an RO membrane as function of pressure and feed salt concentration. This analysis leads to unique values of the water and salt permeabilities, <em>A</em> and <span><math><msup><mrow><mi>B</mi></mrow><mrow><mo>″</mo></mrow></msup></math></span>, not dependent on salt concentration or permeate water flux. Because we now have an improved parametrization, we can more accurately compare different membranes or study in more detail how membrane performance depends on conditions such as salt type and temperature. The new equation can provide guidance for the design of high-performance desalination membranes and for process modeling of desalination systems.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100805,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Membrane Science Letters","volume":"2 1","pages":"Article 100010"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772421221000106/pdfft?md5=31548e8063aad337ee297ad916b979fd&pid=1-s2.0-S2772421221000106-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78525921","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Samuel J. Lounder, Patrick T. Wright, Luca Mazzaferro, Ayse Asatekin
{"title":"Fouling-Resistant Membranes with Tunable Pore Size Fabricated Using Cross-Linkable Copolymers with High Zwitterion Content","authors":"Samuel J. Lounder, Patrick T. Wright, Luca Mazzaferro, Ayse Asatekin","doi":"10.1016/j.memlet.2022.100019","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.memlet.2022.100019","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This work describes a new approach for synthesizing extremely fouling-resistant, zwitterionic membranes with controlled, tunable pore sizes that extend from ion separations (< 1 nm) to the ultrafiltration range (∼2 nm). These membranes are manufactured by the UV treatment of high zwitterion content amphiphilic copolymers with cross-linkable functionality to stabilize the membrane selective layers, preventing excessive swelling and dissolution of copolymers containing as high as 80 wt% zwitterionic repeat units. Zwitterion weight fraction allows the tuning of membrane performance, with effective pore size and permeance both increasing with zwitterion content. The high zwitterion content membranes were remarkably fouling-resistant and demonstrated a salt-responsive behavior not previously observed with self-assembling zwitterionic copolymer membranes.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100805,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Membrane Science Letters","volume":"2 1","pages":"Article 100019"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772421222000071/pdfft?md5=2faf74c9ec71af0acea30e53be225b4c&pid=1-s2.0-S2772421222000071-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78968156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Huaqing Zhang, Yang Zhang, Fan Zhang, Xiaolin Ge, Wanjie Song, Chengpeng Wei, Liang Wu, Tongwen Xu
{"title":"Enhancing side chain swing ability by novel all-carbon twisted backbone for high performance anion exchange membrane at relatively low IEC level","authors":"Huaqing Zhang, Yang Zhang, Fan Zhang, Xiaolin Ge, Wanjie Song, Chengpeng Wei, Liang Wu, Tongwen Xu","doi":"10.1016/j.memlet.2021.100007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.memlet.2021.100007","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A novel all-carbon backbone-based membrane is designed by introducing side chains at the non-coplanar site of twisted “ether-free” main chain via Suzuki coupling reaction. The twisted backbone reduces the hindrance effect, providing broader mobile space for the side chains and enhancing the swing ability of the side chains to facilitate the formation of ion channels and the transportation of OH<sup>−</sup>. As a result, the high conductivity is obtained at a relatively low IEC level. The QPS-PB-4 membrane exhibits a superior OH<sup>−</sup> conductivity of 50.1 to 94.4 mS cm<sup>−1</sup> at 30 ℃ to 80 ℃ with an IEC of only 1.48 mmol <em>g</em><sup>−1</sup>, and a low swelling ratio of less than 10%. Which show significant advantage among the traditional side-chain-type AEMs reported in recent years. Moreover, the as-prepared membranes have good mechanical and thermal stability, as well as excellent chemical stability because of the all-carbon backbone designed without any sensitive sites that can be attacked by hydroxide. The conductivity of the QPS-PB-4 membrane decrease by only 8% after treatment at 80 ℃ in 1 M NaOH for 1800 h. The fuel cell assembled with the as-prepared membrane has a peak power density of up to 558.8 mW cm<sup>−</sup>², indicating the promising application potential of the membranes.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100805,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Membrane Science Letters","volume":"1 2","pages":"Article 100007"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772421221000076/pdfft?md5=28842818e816ef95f1d97f90c4dccc07&pid=1-s2.0-S2772421221000076-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73540812","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Digambar B. Shinde , Li Cao , Xiaowei Liu , Dinga A.D. Wonanke , Zongyao Zhou , Mohamed N. Hedhili , Matthew Addicoat , Kuo-Wei Huang , Zhiping Lai
{"title":"Tailored pore size and microporosity of covalent organic framework (COF) membranes for improved molecular separation","authors":"Digambar B. Shinde , Li Cao , Xiaowei Liu , Dinga A.D. Wonanke , Zongyao Zhou , Mohamed N. Hedhili , Matthew Addicoat , Kuo-Wei Huang , Zhiping Lai","doi":"10.1016/j.memlet.2021.100008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.memlet.2021.100008","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Three crystalline truxene-based β-ketoenamine COF membranes (TFP-HETTA, TFP-HBTTA and TFP-HHTTA) are fabricated via a <em>de novo</em> monomer design approach to understand the fundamental correlations between pore structure and molecular separation performance. By introducing bulky alkyl groups into the truxene framework, the pore size of TFP-HETTA, TFP-HBTTA, and TFP-HHTTA are systematically tuned from 1.08 to 0.72 nm. Accordingly, the TFP-HETTA showed good water permeance of 47 L <em>m</em><sup>−2</sup> <em>h</em><sup>−1</sup> bar<sup>−1</sup> along with a prominent rejection rate of Reactive Blue (RB, 800 Da) but less than 10% rejection rate of inorganic salts. In contrast, the TFP-HHTTA membrane with pore size of 0.72 nm can reject small dye molecules such as Safranin O (SO, 350 Da) and trivalent salts but with a moderate water permeance of 19 L <em>m</em><sup>−2</sup> <em>h</em><sup>−1</sup> bar<sup>−1</sup>. The pore-flow model rooted from the viscous flow could well fit the observed organic solvent nanofiltration results of all three COF membranes.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100805,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Membrane Science Letters","volume":"1 2","pages":"Article 100008"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772421221000088/pdfft?md5=09c0c61dbe8632cbe9e8eefa796ff197&pid=1-s2.0-S2772421221000088-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83602574","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The role of skin layer defects in organic solvent reverse osmosis membranes","authors":"Hye Youn Jang, Ryan P. Lively","doi":"10.1016/j.memlet.2021.100004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memlet.2021.100004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The fractionation of complex liquid hydrocarbon mixtures is an important and emerging area of membrane science. Polymeric asymmetric hollow fiber membranes have the potential to be used for this purpose, especially if the size and number of defects in the membrane skin layer can be precisely engineered. Here, we fabricated various “defect-engineered” Torlon hollow fiber membranes by modifying hollow fiber spinning conditions and spin dopes to study the role of skin layer defects in the organic solvent reverse osmosis (OSRO) membranes. The quality of the membranes was investigated using several sets of pure gas permeation experiments, which provided input data for a permeation resistance model that estimates the pore size and surface porosity of the asymmetric hollow fiber membrane. We develop and experimentally validate a resistance permeation model for solvent permeation and utilize the surface properties derived from the gas permeation experiments to estimate the relative permeation rates of solvents in a mixture. The approach outlined here highlights the interconnection between gas permeation analysis and OSRO separation performance using Torlon hollow fiber membranes as an exemplar test case. The solvent permeation model is then utilized to provide quantitative insight on the differences between OSRO and organic solvent nanofiltration (OSN), and highlight the important transition region between these two modalities.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100805,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Membrane Science Letters","volume":"1 1","pages":"Article 100004"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772421221000040/pdfft?md5=40acfae29ca8a578deca5f48f918124f&pid=1-s2.0-S2772421221000040-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"137403257","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chung-Kai Chang , Hyun Jung Yu , Huiwon Jang , Ting-Hsiang Hung , Chung-Kai Chang , Jihan Kim , Jong Suk Lee , Dun-Yen Kang
{"title":"Conformational-change-induced selectivity enhancement of CAU-10-PDC membrane for H2/CH4 and CO2/CH4 separation","authors":"Chung-Kai Chang , Hyun Jung Yu , Huiwon Jang , Ting-Hsiang Hung , Chung-Kai Chang , Jihan Kim , Jong Suk Lee , Dun-Yen Kang","doi":"10.1016/j.memlet.2021.100005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.memlet.2021.100005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The separation of H<sub>2</sub>/CH<sub>4</sub> or CO<sub>2</sub>/CH<sub>4</sub> is critical to the purification of natural gas. Herein, we report on novel membranes with a metal-organic framework of CAU-10-PDC for the separation of these two mixtures. The dense CAU-10-PDC membranes are fabricated on a porous alumina support using the seeded growth method. An unexpected increase in selectivity was observed while testing mixed gas permeation with either H<sub>2</sub>/CH<sub>4</sub> or CO<sub>2</sub>/CH<sub>4</sub> at a molar ratio of 50:50. Steady-state selectivity reached 101 for H<sub>2</sub>/CH<sub>4</sub> and 62 for CO<sub>2</sub>/CH<sub>4</sub>. Ideal selectivity measured from single gas permeation reached 475 for H<sub>2</sub>/CH<sub>4</sub> and 288 for CO<sub>2</sub>/CH<sub>4</sub>. Molecular dynamics simulations and time-resolved X-ray diffraction with a synchrotron radiation source were used to probe conformational changes in CAU-10-PDC induced by exposure to CH<sub>4</sub>. When exposed to an atmosphere containing CH<sub>4</sub>, CAU-10-PDC presented a change in the space group (from <em>I</em>4<sub>1</sub>/<em>amd</em> to <em>I</em>4<sub>1</sub>), which drastically reduced the pore limiting diameter from 4.15 to 2.95 Å, rendering the channel nearly impermeable to CH<sub>4</sub>.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100805,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Membrane Science Letters","volume":"1 1","pages":"Article 100005"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772421221000052/pdfft?md5=bc88058c566daef3e0c02c1d2c0cc52a&pid=1-s2.0-S2772421221000052-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75831088","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editorial to the first issue of the inaugural volume of Journal of Membrane Science Letters","authors":"Jerry Y.S. Lin , Rong Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.memlet.2021.100006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.memlet.2021.100006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100805,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Membrane Science Letters","volume":"1 1","pages":"Article 100006"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772421221000064/pdfft?md5=ee4eb0fbb964fe1eab4a1ef9d5ccd156&pid=1-s2.0-S2772421221000064-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82402835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yang Cao , Yinhua Wan , Chulong Chen , Jianquan Luo
{"title":"A novel acid resistant thin-film composite nanofiltration membrane with polyurea enhanced dually charged separation layer","authors":"Yang Cao , Yinhua Wan , Chulong Chen , Jianquan Luo","doi":"10.1016/j.memlet.2021.100002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.memlet.2021.100002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Fabricating acid resistant nanofiltration (NF) membranes with precise solute separation performance is highly demanded for acidic wastewater treatment but remains a challenge. Herein, we propose a facile strategy for preparing dually charged acid resistant NF membranes with both high cations and anions rejections via a two-layer reverse interfacial polymerization (r-IP) process. Organic monomers of trimesoyl chloride (TMC) and 1,4-phenylene diisocyanate (PPDI) are firstly applied to react with 3-aminobenzenesulfonamide (ABSA) to construct a negatively charged loose intermediate layer, followed by the r-IP of TMC/PPDI and polyethyleneimine (PEI) to engineer a dense positively charged top layer. The highly cross-linked polyurea (PU) formed by isocyanate and amine leads to an enhanced size sieving effect, and the well-arranged dually charged layer endows the membrane stronger electrostatic exclusion. The resultant membrane has 97.7% rejection of Na<sub>2</sub>SO<sub>4</sub> and 93.0% of MgCl<sub>2</sub>, and it exhibits fairly high rejections to various heavy metals, as well as impressive long-term stability after exposure to strong acid (10 wt% of H<sub>2</sub>SO<sub>4</sub> for 400 h).</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100805,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Membrane Science Letters","volume":"1 1","pages":"Article 100002"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772421221000027/pdfft?md5=034af5ee7b614c343cca97866f3e4168&pid=1-s2.0-S2772421221000027-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85371412","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}