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Omniphobic Hollow Fiber Membranes for Water Recovery and Desalination
journal contribution
posted on 2020-08-03, 14:34 authored by Mahdi Mohammadi Ghaleni, Abdullah Al Balushi, Mona Bavarian, Siamak NejatiDespite remarkable
progress in developing wetting-resistant membranes
for the desalination of challenging water resources through membrane
distillation, practical approaches that allow for the fabrication
of wetting-resistant hollow fiber membranes (HFMs) are not yet available.
Here we demonstrate the feasibility of using a semicontinuous bottom-up
technique to create omniphobic HFMs. The omniphobic HFM showed stable
performance in the desalination of low-surface-tension saline solutions
during a prolonged (>42 h) direct-contact membrane distillation
test.
Additionally, compared with polyvinylidene fluoride hollow fibers,
we note a ∼71% reduction in salt scaling for the omniphobic
HFMs.