A new nanocomposite forward osmosis membrane custom-designed for treating shale gas wastewater

• Main Authors: Qin, Detao, Liu, Zhaoyang, Sun, Darren Delai, Song, Xiaoxiao, Bai, Hongwei
• Other Authors: School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/104136; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/38803
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Managing the wastewater discharged from oil and shale gas fields is a big challenge, because this kind of wastewater is normally polluted by high contents of both oils and salts. Conventional pressure-driven membranes experience little success for treating this wastewater because of either severe me...