Omniphobic Hollow Fiber Membranes for Water Recovery and Desalination

Mahdi Mohammadi Ghaleni, Abdullah Al Balushi, Mona Bavarian, Siamak Nejati

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Abstract

Despite remarkable progress in developing wetting-resistant membranes for the desalination of challenging water resources through membrane distillation, practical approaches that allow for the fabrication of wetting-resistant hollow fiber membranes (HFMs) are not yet available. Here we demonstrate the feasibility of using a semicontinuous bottom-up technique to create omniphobic HFMs. The omniphobic HFM showed stable performance in the desalination of low-surface-tension saline solutions during a prolonged (>42 h) direct-contact membrane distillation test. Additionally, compared with polyvinylidene fluoride hollow fibers, we note a ∼71% reduction in salt scaling for the omniphobic HFMs.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)3034-3038
Number of pages5
JournalACS Applied Polymer Materials
Volume2
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 14 2020

Keywords

  • hollow fiber membrane
  • membrane distillation
  • omniphobic
  • water desalination
  • wetting resistant

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Process Chemistry and Technology
  • Polymers and Plastics
  • Organic Chemistry

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