On the asymptotic flux of ultrapermeable seawater reverse osmosis membranes due to concentration polarisation

Just as thermodynamic considerations impose a finite limit on the energy requirements of reverse osmosis, concentration polarisation imposes a finite limit on flux, or equivalently, on system size. In the limit of infinite permeability, we show the limiting flux to be linearly dependent on the mass...

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Main Authors: McGovern, Ronan Killian, Lienhard, John H.
Other Authors: Center for Clean Water for Clean Energy at MIT & KFUPM
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Elsevier 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/103965
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2901-0638
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3808-8824