Fabrication and Characterization of Fabric-reinforced Pressure Retarded Osmosis Membranes for Osmotic Power Harvesting

• Main Authors: She, Qianhong, Wei, Jing, Ma, Ning, Sim, Victor, Fane, Anthony Gordon, Wang, Rong, Tang, Chuyang Y.
• Other Authors: School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: pressure retarded osmosis (PRO); tricot fabric; membrane deformation; stretching; osmotic power; fabric-reinforced membrane
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/82780; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/40310
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In recent years, pressure retarded osmosis (PRO) has attracted increasing interest in the harvesting of the renewable osmotic power. However, its performance can be significantly influenced by the membrane deformation in the operation when the PRO membrane is lack of sufficient mechanical strength....