This study presents a novel desalination technology that couples Donnan dialysis (DD) with thermally-recoverable solutes and utilizes low-grade heat as energy input. In the proposed process, saline feed streams receiver solutions of concentrated NH4HCO3(aq) flow stepwise across cation- anion-exchange membranes. The large transmembrane concentration differences NH4+ HCO3– set up electrochemical ...

cyanide ion, is an environmentally significant pollutant in many industrial wastewaters.therefore, a considerable number of methods have been studied for the wastewater treatment containingcyanide. the goal of our work consists in applying a simple and economic process for solving this problem ofpollution. the removal of cyanide ions by using three anion exchange membranes has been studied unde...

We report grand canonical Monte Carlo simulations of the critical point properties of homopolymers within the Bond Fluctuation model. By employing Configurational Bias Monte Carlo methods, chain lengths of up to N = 60 monomers could be studied. For each chain length investigated, the critical point parameters were determined by matching the ordering operator distribution function to its univer...

flory fox, kurata-stockmayer, berry, inagaki-suzuki-kurata, stockmayer-fixman and ahmad-baloch methods based on the excluded volume theory have been applied to poly(vinyl chloride)-cyclohexanone system to obtain kq and the radius of gyration. a discussion on the reliability of these methods is given. the stockmayer-fixman and ahmad-baloch methods are found to be equally applicable.

A Flory theory is constructed for a long polymer ring in a melt of unknotted and non-concatenated rings. The theory assumes that the ring forms an effective annealed branched object and computes its primitive path. It is shown that the primitive path follows self-avoiding statistics and is characterized by the corresponding Flory exponent of a polymer with excluded volume. Based on that, it is ...

Recent progress in modelling the solvent vapor annealing of thin film block copolymers is examined in the context of a self-consistent field theory framework. Key control variables in determining the final microdomain morphologies include swelling ratio or swollen film solvent volume fraction, swollen film thickness, substrate and vapor atmosphere surface energies, effective volume fraction, an...

This study linked the chemical potential change to high specific filtration resistance (SFR) of gel layer, and then proposed a novel membrane fouling mechanism regarding gel layer filtration, namely, Flory-Huggins based filtration mechanism. A mathematical model for this mechanism was theoretically deduced. Agar was used as a model polymer for gel formation. Simulation of the mathematical model...

Soil-water characteristic curve (SWCC) correlates the water content of a soil to its suction, which is very important property unsaturated soils. Osmotic tensiometers (OTs) have shown their capability in high suction measurement. This study tried use OT combined with pressure plate and WP4C dewpoint potentiometer determine SWCC residual soil. Three OTs different measuring ranges (900 kPa, 1200 ...