Zhouwei Wang

TL;DR: In this paper, the use of CF 4 plasma modification of a hydrophilic membrane into hydrophobic one for membrane distillation has been described, where the modified membranes were characterized by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), SEM, contact angle measurements, pore size distribution, liquid entry pressure and atomic force microscopy.

TL;DR: This study examined the performance of a novel hybrid system of forward osmosis (FO) combined with vacuum membrane distillation (VMD) for reclaiming water from shale gas drilling flow-back fluid (SGDF).

TL;DR: It was shown that the rotaviruses in the reused wastewater after conventional treatment process presented potential risk to human health through both occupational and accidental exposure, as well as the acceptable annual risk level.

TL;DR: In this paper, the performance of the forward osmosis (FO) process for concentrating underground brine (UGB) with saturated sodium chloride as draw solution (DS) using two membranes: commercialized flat sheet cellulose triacetate (CTA) membrane and tailor-made thin film composite (TFC) FO membrane.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors demonstrated that a significant loss of FO flux was observed after membrane dehydration, but the pure water permeability and rejection properties remained about the same, indicating that membrane dehydration is reversible.