Grantee Research Project Results
2014 Progress Report: Enabling Potable Reuse Of Wastewater Using Forward Osmosis: A Sustainable And Affordable Alternative To Reverse Osmosis
EPA Grant Number: R834872Title: Enabling Potable Reuse Of Wastewater Using Forward Osmosis: A Sustainable And Affordable Alternative To Reverse Osmosis
Investigators: McCutcheon, Jeffrey R
Institution: University of Connecticut
EPA Project Officer: Packard, Benjamin H
Project Period: June 1, 2011 through May 31, 2016
Project Period Covered by this Report: June 1, 2014 through May 31,2015
Project Amount: $300,000
RFA: Advancing Public Health Protection through Water Infrastructure Sustainability (2009) RFA Text | Recipients Lists
Research Category: Drinking Water , Water
Objective:
This project aims to evaluate the promise of forward osmosis (FO) as a technology to enable direct potable reuse of water. FO is an emerging membrane technology platform that offers a low cost alternative to reverse osmosis (RO) as a means of recapturing wastewater for direct potable reuse. The barriers to direct potable reuse are great, mostly stemming from the lack of guaranteed removal of contaminants that can cause harm to humans even at low levels when exposure is chronic. The goal of this project is to develop new membranes that function in FO and test those membranes for removal of various contaminants.
Progress Summary:
This is the fourth year of the project, and we have completed more work on our nanofiber and 3M membrane platforms that have provided novel insight into membrane performance in FO.
- Continued development of two new membrane platform designed for forward osmosis
- Two Ph.D. students trained, two more collaborators involved in the project
- Four undergraduate students trained
- Two Ph.D. students funded by this project graduated, two others that were collaborators on the project also graduated.
- PI Award FRI/John G. Kunesh award from AIChE
- PI Elected Chair of the AIChE Membrane-based Separations Area of the Separations Division
Future Activities:
- Complete publishing of work
Journal Articles on this Report : 11 Displayed | Download in RIS Format
Other project views: | All 82 publications | 14 publications in selected types | All 12 journal articles |
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Arena JT, Manickam SS, Reimund K, Freeman B, McCutcheon JR. Solute and water transport in forward osmosis using polydopamine modified thin film composite membranes. Desalination 2014;343:8-16. |
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Bui N-N, Lind ML, Hoek EMV, McCutcheon JR. Electrospun supported thin film composite membranes for engineered osmosis. Journal of Membrane Science 2011;385-386:10-19. |
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Bui N-N, McCutcheon JR. Hydrophilic nanofibers as new supports for thin film composite membranes for engineered osmosis. Environmental Science & Technology 2013;47(3):1761-1769. |
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Huang L, Bui N-N, Manickam SS, McCutcheon JR. Controlling electrospun nanofiber morphology and mechanical properties using humidity. Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics 2011;49(24):1734-1744. |
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Huang L, Manickam SS, McCutcheon JR. Increasing strength of electrospun nanofiber membranes for water filtration using solvent vapor. Journal of Membrane Science 2013;436:213-220. |
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Huang L, Bui N-N, Meyering MT, Hamlin TJ, McCutcheon JR. Novel hydrophilic nylon 6,6 microfiltration membrane supported thin film composite membranes for engineered osmosis. Journal of Membrane Science 2013;437:141-149. |
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Huang L, Arena JT, Manickam SS, Jiang X, Willis BG, McCutcheon JR. Improved mechanical properties and hydrophilicity of electrospun nanofiber membranes for filtration applications by dopamine modification. Journal of Membrane Science 2014;460:241-249. |
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Huang L, McCutcheon JR. Hydrophilic nylon 6,6 nanofibers supported membranes for engineered osmosis. Journal of Membrane Science 2014;457:162-169. |
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Huang L, Arena JT, McCutcheon JR. Surface modified PVDF nanofiber supported thin film composite membrane. Journal of Membrane Science 2016;499:352-360. |
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McCutcheon JR, Wang R. Osmotic processes for a sustainable 21st century—guest editorial. Desalination 2013:312:1. |
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Ren J, McCutcheon JR. A new commercial thin film composite membrane for forward osmosis. Desalination 2014;343:187-193. |
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Supplemental Keywords:
Forward osmosis, engineered osmosis, membrane, thin film composite, nanofiber, electrospinning, wastewaterRelevant Websites:
Jeffrey McCutcheon | Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering ExitProgress and Final Reports:
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