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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Membrane Science"”.
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The Cell Membrane Science Suitcase: An Educational Module for High School Biology Students
… and testing of an educational module, the Cell Membrane Science Briefcase, for high school introductory biology students. The module is part of the Science Teacher Access to Resources at Southwestern series of educational Science Suitcases, made available to teachers within the Dallas …
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Multiscale Modeling of Electronic Polarization Effects in Interfacial Thermodynamics and Nanoscale Transport Phenomena
… in several scientific disciplines ranging from membrane science to biophysics and electrochemistry. At any solid/water interface, water being a polar solvent and salt ions being charged species, can exert strong electric fields which can in turn result in a significant electronic polarization of …
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Microscopic Physics of Electrical Double Layers
… layer plays a central role in many fields in science and engineering, including colloid science, electrochemistry, biology, membrane science, and tribology. Across these fields, mathematical models of the double layer have been used to analyze and predict the behavior of electrochemical …
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Membrane Processes for Sustainable Energy Applications
… impact on our current lifestyle.</p><p>Membrane processes have gained importance in a wide spectrum of applications due to their low energy requirements. Process technologies for alternative energy production can be intensified with the application of membranes. This dissertation is …
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Multivalent Programmable Interactions Between Lipid Vesicles: Towards Responsive Soft Materials
Lipid membranes and lipid vesicles have been studied extensively in the last 50 years in order to characterise their biological, chemical and physical properties. Such work is of interest from a fundamental biological perspective, but also due to the applications that their biocompatibility …
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Removal of Endocrine Disrupting Compounds Using Membrane Bioreactor
… degradation and extreme low concentrations. Membrane bioreactor (MBR) used in this study is novella better water reclamation technology that shows several advantages including stable operation conditions due to long solid retention time (SRT); concentrated mixed liquor suspended solids …
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Membrane Surface Engineering for Biochemical Applications
<p>Synthetic membranes have been frequently used for many fields, such as, the food and beverage, biopharmaceutical, and biofuel industries. In the beer industry, microfiltration frequently suffers from fouling due to the interaction between different species. It is shown that polyphenols can form …
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Development of Forward Osmosis Based Separations: A Novel Approach in Membrane Technology
… the worldwide severe water shortage, the membrane technology is considered to be the most efficient approach and hence, used widely as a cost-effective sustainable solution. “Forward osmosis (FO)” has been the major attention in recent time. FO uses osmotic pressure as the driving force to …
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Performance and Fouling during Bioreactor Harvesting
… filter is limited by the cross flow. However, membrane fouling has limited its widespread use. This is particularly problematic given the high cell densities encountered today. Here a reverse asymmetric commercial membrane, BioOptimal™ MF-SL (Asahi Kasei), where the more open surface faces the …
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Effects of Magnetically Induced Micro-mixing on Nanofiltration Performance
<p>Nanofiltration (NF) is a relatively new membrane separation process mainly used for removing low molecular weight species from aqueous and non-aqueous solutions. NF membranes suffer from concentration polarization leading to membrane fouling thus compromised membrane performance. Magnetically …
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Meshless Discrete Velocity Boltzmann Model for Porous Media Flow
<p>This dissertation explores the combination of two sophisticated techniques for addressing computational fluid dynamics: the discrete velocity Boltzmann equation (DVBE) and the localized collocation meshless model with upwinding (U-LCMM). The DVBE is a high-level model that describes the …