Fabricating robust thin film composite membranes reinforced on woven mesh backing fabric support for pressure assisted and forward osmosis: A dataset
Year: 2018
Journal: Data Brief, Volume 21, DEC, page 364–370
Authors: Sahebi, Soleyman; Shon, Ho Kyong; Phuntsho, Sherub; Ramavandi, Bahman
Keywords: Thin film composite; Forward osmosis; Pressure assisted osmosis; Woven mesh backing fabric support
The data presented in this paper are produced as part of the original research article entitled "Thin-film composite membrane on a compacted woven backing fabric for pressure assisted osmosis" (Sahebi et al., 2017). This article describes how to fabricate a defect free membrane for forward osmosis (FO) and pressure assisted osmosis (PAO) on the woven mesh backing fabric support. Casting polymer on backing fabric support may limit the interfacial polyemirization due to wrinkled membrane surface. This paper presents data obtained from two different backing fabrics used as support for fabrication of thin film composite FO membrane. Backing fabric support were woven polyester mesh with different opening size. The data include the characterization of the intrinsic properties of the membrane samples, SEM and their performance under FO process. The structural parameters (S value) of the substrate were computed from thickness and porosity of the substrates. Thin film composite (TFC) membrane achieved a water flux of 8.1 L m(2) h(-1) in FO process and 37 L m(2) h(-1) using 0.5 M NaCl as draw solution (DS) and deionised (Dl) water as the feed solution (FS) when applied hydraulic pressure was 10 bar. (C) 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc.
