Research Papers by Kuo-Lun Tung

The negatively charged polyamide thin-film-composite nanofiltration membranes have been used to possibly treat the sodium-enriched water, particularly cooling tower water, to separate hardness producing solute like MgSO4 from univalent salts using ESNA and EDA nanofiltration membranes. The flux decl

A dynamic analysis procedure has been adopted based on mass and force balances for particle deposition on the membrane surface to analysis and predict the particle fouling layer structure in microfiltration. The local properties in a fouling layer, say porosity distribution, resistance to fluid flow

The effects of membrane pore size and operating conditions on the particle fouling in ‘‘dead-end’’ microfiltration are studied by use of membrane blocking models. Two track-etched membranes (Isopore1membrane) with the mean pore diameters of 0.2 and 0.4 mm, respectively, are used as the filter media

In this study, the appropriate cell type for periodic boundary conditions (PBC) in CFD analysis for spacerfilled membrane module design was validated by comparing the simulated values of pressure drop with that obtained by experiments. The pressure drop through spacer-filled channel depends on the g

Three-dimensional particles deposition on a filter pore of a track-etched polycarbonate membrane was studied numerically by analyzing forces acting on the depositing particles. The simulation was applied to examine how the morphology of the filter pore affects the deposition of particles on a membra