Ngai Yin Yip

TL;DR: The development of a high performance thin-film composite membrane for forward osmosis applications with high water flux was directly related to the thickness, porosity, tortuosity, and pore structure of the polysulfone support layer.

TL;DR: It is found that desalination for reuse of produced water is technically feasible and can be economically relevant, however, because produced water management is primarily an economic decision, expanding desalinated for reuse is dependent on process and material improvements to reduce capital and operating costs.

TL;DR: The WaterCAMPWS, a Science and======Technology Center of Advanced Materials for the Purification of Water with Systems under the National Science Foundation Grant No. KUS-C1-018-02, made by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST); and Oasys Water Inc..

TL;DR: A theoretical model to predict the water flux in pressure retarded osmosis, from which the power density that can be achieved by a membrane is predicted, is presented, the first to incorporate external concentration polarization, a performance limiting phenomenon that becomes significant for high-performance membranes.

TL;DR: In this paper, a simple and rapid methodology to characterize the water and solute permeability coefficients (A and B, respectively) and structural parameter (S) of forward osmosis (FO) membranes is presented.