Rejection of pharmaceuticals by forward osmosis membranes

• Main Authors: Jin, Xue, Shan, Junhong, Wang, Can, Wei, Jing, Tang, Chuyang Y.
• Other Authors: School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/96791; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/11635
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Rejection of four pharmaceutical compounds, carbamazepine, diclofenac, ibuprofen and naproxen, by forward osmosis (FO) membranes was investigated in this study. For the first time, the rejection efficiency of the pharmaceutical compounds was compared between commercial cellulose triacetate (CTA) bas...