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Vanessa Mendoza-Grimón, Juan Ramón Fernández-Vera, Jose Manuel Hernández-Moreno and María del Pino Palacios-Díaz
In the Canary Islands, there is a hydrological imbalance between water consumption and renewable water availability. To provide more water resources, reverse osmosis (RO) from seawater is used. As boron (B) contents in irrigation water higher than 0.7 mg...
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Sichu Xing, Songhang Du, Yingyue Huang, Xingqi Qi and Minghao Sui
Nanofiltration membranes (NF) have been widely used in the field of water treatment because of their advantages of high separation precision, easy operation, and no phase change. Conventional NF membranes, ensnared by the ?trade-off? effect, grapple with...
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Stef Depuydt, Lucy Traub, Gilles Van Eygen, Santosh Kumar, Georg Held and Bart Van der Bruggen
In this work, homogeneous, thin-film proton exchange membranes (PEMs) with superior proton conductivities and high methanol rejection were fabricated via a facile synthesis procedure. Sulfonated polyether ether ketone (sPEEK) was crosslinked via a Friede...
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Bora Pulatsu, Rhea Wilson, Jose V. Lemos and Neboj?a Mojsilovic
Unreinforced masonry (URM) walls are common load-bearing structural elements in most existing buildings, consisting of masonry units (bricks) and mortar joints. They indicate a highly nonlinear and complex behaviour when subjected to combined compression...
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Alexey Liogky and Victoria Salamatova
Data-driven simulations are gaining popularity in mechanics of biomaterials since they do not require explicit form of constitutive relations. Data-driven modeling based on neural networks lacks interpretability. In this study, we propose an interpretabl...
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J. Feo-García, A. Pulido-Alonso, A. Florido-Betancor and N. R. Florido-Suárez
The analysis of energy consumption in reverse osmosis desalination plants is the most important and relevant factor to study, because this parameter indicates the level of efficiency and competitiveness of the plant. The direct consequence of the high sp...
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Luisa Boni, Marco Bassetto and Alessandro A. Quarta
Photonic solar sails are a class of advanced propellantless propulsion systems that use thin, large, lightweight membranes to convert the momentum of light from the Sun into thrust for space navigation. The conceptually simple nature of such a fascinatin...
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Alexei Pervov and Dmitry Spitsov
Reverse osmosis is efficiently used for producing drinking water from groundwater sources containing dissolved impurities, including fluoride, ammonia, lithium, strontium, boron, arsenic, etc. The principal problems of utilizing reverse osmosis include s...
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Matteo Di Virgilio, Andrea Basso Peressut, Valeria Arosio, Alessandro Arrigoni, Saverio Latorrata and Giovanni Dotelli
Despite being the most employed polymer electrolyte for proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs), Nafion® has several limitations: expensiveness, poor performance when exposed to temperatures higher than 80 °C, and its potential as a source of enviro...
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Baraa A. K. Al-Sakaji, Ghaleb A. Husseini and Naif A. Darwish
This work aims to theoretically investigate the effect of both the fixed charge density of ion exchange membranes and the ionic strength of the treated aqueous NaCl solution on the generated Donnan potential at thermodynamic equilibrium conditions. The d...
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