BIAN Lixia, FANG Yanyan, WANG Xiaolin. Water and solute transport phenomena in forward osmosis process[J]. CIESC Journal, 2014, (7): 2813-2820.
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BIAN Lixia, FANG Yanyan, WANG Xiaolin. Water and solute transport phenomena in forward osmosis process[J]. CIESC Journal, 2014, (7): 2813-2820.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.0438-1157.2014.07.043.
Water and solute transport phenomena in forward osmosis process
As a novel technology using the principle of osmosis
forward osmosis has drawn worldwide attentions in recent years. Understanding the simultaneous water transport and solute reverse transport in the forward osmosis processes is essential to the development and application of this emerging technology. In this study
the effects of two membrane orientations on solute reverse molar flux and water flux were investigated. The water flux in the mode of active layer facing draw solution was higher than that in the mode of active layer facing feed solution
whereas solute reverse molar flux presented a contrary result
which indicated that transport of water would restrict the reverse transport of solute. The effects of different types of solute
including one single solute and two-component mixed solutes
on solute flux and water flux were also investigated. Water flux and solute reverse molar flux increased with increasing draw solution concentration when using single neutral solute or electrolyte as solute. Under the same operation condition
the smaller the diffusion coefficient was
the lower the solute reverse molar flux was. Furthermore
the coupled transport of the solutes was observed in the mixed draw solution.