Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.
State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory for Environmental Risk Assessment and Control on Chemical Process, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China.
Sci Rep. 2016 May 18;6:26183. doi: 10.1038/srep26183.
We have designed a porous nanofluidic desalination device, a rotating carbon nanotube membrane filter (RCNT-MF), for the reverse osmosis desalination that can turn salt water into fresh water. The concept as well as design strategy of RCNT-MF is modeled, and demonstrated by using molecular dynamics simulation. It has been shown that the RCNT-MF device may significantly improve desalination efficiency by combining the centrifugal force propelled reverse osmosis process and the porous CNT-based fine scale selective separation technology.
我们设计了一种用于反渗透脱盐的多孔纳米流脱盐装置,即旋转碳纳米管膜过滤器(RCNT-MF),可将盐水转化为淡水。RCNT-MF 的概念和设计策略通过分子动力学模拟进行了建模和验证。结果表明,RCNT-MF 装置可通过结合离心力推动的反渗透过程和基于多孔 CNT 的精细选择性分离技术,显著提高脱盐效率。