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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP170102391
Funding Status
Active
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Funded Activity Summary
Overcoming performance limiting chemistries in membrane distillation. This project aims to study performance limiting chemistries associated with fouling of solution-borne components on membrane surfaces that cause critical vapour pressure loss. Membrane distillation could be used for sustainable resource recovery, but no research has overcome the total loss of membrane water flux when removing water from saturated solutions where the critical resource recovery function occurs. This project will characterise the physical and chemical properties of the flux limiting solid on the membrane surface, and the role of membrane chemistry and functional conditions in overcoming this limit. The outcomes of the work will provide innovative sustainable solutions to recover valuable products from current wastes.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 05-2017
End Date: 12-2022
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $239,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Chemical Engineering | Functional Materials | Environmental Technologies | Membrane and Separation Technologies
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Environmentally Sustainable Mineral Resource Activities not elsewhere classified | Urban and Industrial Water Management |
