Research Papers by Shulan Ji

Membrane distillation (MD) is a promising desalination technology for water recovery from high-salinity solutions such as RO brine. Despite its great potential, MD has not been industrially realized because this technique generates a lower flux than reverse osmosis processes and exhibits a lower ther

As polyacrylonitrile (PAN)-based membrane plays an important role in the processes of pervaporation, bioproduct purification and water treatment, this study aims at better understanding the hydrolysis differences by using different alkaline species, and how the hydrolysis degree affect the subsequen

A simple semi-theoretical steady-state model for the convective flux in cross-flow microfiltration has been developed based on the mass balance. The model, which has two coefficients, A and K, can describes the cake increase on membrane surfaces in a hollow-fiber membrane module and predicts its mem

In this paper we present a new method to prepare organic–inorganic hybrid PVDF/Si membranes by adding tetraethyl orthosilicate (TEOS) into the polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) casting solution. During the membrane coagulation in acid bath (pH = 1), the TEOS was hydrolyzed and polymerized, and silicon–