Development of novel highly productive track etch membranes for forward osmosis process

摘要

Forward osmosis (FO) process has gained vast popularity in recent years. FO has thepotential advantages of low energy demand, insignificant membrane fouling, and as result rare membranecleaning is required [1]. Despite that nowadays different research groups from around the world [2]working on development of highly productive membranes for direct osmosis process, water flux of FOmembranes is far away from water flux of reverse osmosis membranes. With reference to that it can beclaimed that development of the new generation of forward osmosis membrane is of high importance.