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Item type:Publication, Access status: without files , Open and FAIR data for nanofiltration in organic media: a unified approach(Elsevier, 2025-01-01); ; ; ; Organic solvent nanofiltration (OSN), also called solvent-resistant nanofiltration (SRNF), has emerged as a promising technology for the removal of impurities, recovery of solutes, and the regeneration of solvents in various industries, such as the pharmaceutical and the (petro)chemical industries. Despite the widespread use of OSN/SRNF, the presence of scattered, non-standardized data, and the absence of openly accessible data pose critical challenges to the development of new membrane materials and processes, their comparison to the state-of-the-art materials, and their fundamental understanding. To overcome these hurdles, data from peer-reviewed research articles and commercial datasheets were curated via a standardized procedure to obtain an extensive dataset on the membrane materials, synthesis parameters, operational conditions, physicochemical properties, and performance of OSN/SRNF membranes. Thanks to a truly impressive joint effort of the OSN/SRNF community, the dataset contains, as per April 2024, 5006 unique membrane filtrations from 294 publications for 42 solvents under several process parameters. This findable, accessible, interoperable, reproducible, and open (FAIR/O) dataset is available on both the OSN Database and the newly inaugurated Open Membrane Database for SRNF (OMD4SRNF). These databases provide multiple visualization and data exploration tools. Here, the standardized procedure applied to curate the data and the functionality of the databases are outlined, as well as the online user interface to deposit new data by external users on the OMD4SRNF. This community-led project has been supported by all the co-authors of this work. Most importantly, they additionally agreed to systematically deposit their future peer-reviewed data on OSN/SRNF into the databases. We thereby pave the road for FAIR/O data in the field of OSN/SRNF to increase transparency, enable more accurate data analysis, and foster collaboration and innovation.Publicationtype: Journal Article34 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Access status: without files , Flux-enhanced PVDF mixed matrix membranes incorporating APTS-functionalized graphene oxide for membrane distillationAir gap membrane distillation (AGMD) is an emerging desalination technology with the potential to meet the challenge of global water scarcity due to its low cost and high thermal efficiency compared to other processes. However, despite the potential of AGMD, a lack of appropriate membranes limits its commercial application. Therefore, this study was focussed on the fabrication of high flux, robust membranes for the purification of artificial sea water by incorporating graphene oxide functionalized with 3-(aminopropyl)triethoxysilane (APTS) into PVDF polymer solutions. Successful functionalisation of GO with APTS was confirmed with XPS and FTIR. It was shown that the addition of GO and GO-APTS enhanced the permeate flux by 52% and 86%, respectively, compared to pure PVDF. The best performing membrane contained 0.3 wt% GO-APTS (with respect to PVDF) and had a flux of 6.2 LMH (L m h ) whilst maintaining perfect salt rejection (>99.9%). These improvements were attributed to increased surface and bulk porosity, larger mean pore size and hydrophilic interactions owing to the functional groups of GO and GO-APTS. These membranes are evidence of the potential that GO and related materials have as nanocomposite fillers in high performance desalination membranes. −2 −1Publicationtype: Journal Article43