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Progress in Chemistry 2015, Vol. 27 Issue (12): 1822-1832 DOI: 10.7536/PC150606 Previous Articles   Next Articles

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Pressure Retarded Osmosis Membrane Technology

Yu Yuan, Wu Qingyun*, Chen Zhongren   

  1. Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering, Key Laboratory of Specialty Polymers, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China
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    The work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51403107), the Global Recruitment Program of Foreign Experts (No. 2013-211), the Program for Zhejiang Leading S&T Innovation Team (No. 2011R50001), the Ningbo “3315” Program (Class A) for the Global Innovation Team of Novel Specialty Polymers (No. 2012S0001), the Ningbo S&T Program for Biomimetic Materials Technology and Application in Marine Disaster Prevention and Mitigation (No. 2011A31002), and K. C. Wong Magna Fund in Ningbo University.
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Pressure retarded osmosis (PRO) is one of the most promising membrane technologies, which has attracted much attention in recent years. PRO can be applied in desalination and waste water treatment when combined with forward osmosis or reverse osmosis process, and power generation from salinity gradients energy. This paper systematically summarizes the power generation mechanism, process design, and influencing factors of PRO processes. Then, it introduces PRO membrane materials, membrane types, existing problems and their corresponding solutions. Finally, we give several examples about PRO applications in power generation and water treatment.

Contents
1 Introduction
2 Pressure retarded osmosis process
2.1 Principle of PRO
2.2 PRO process design
2.3 Influencing factors of PRO process
3 Pressure retard osmosis membranes
3.1 Membrane type
3.2 Existing problems and their solutions
4 Applications
4.1 Power generation
4.2 Water treatment
5 Outlooks

Key words: salinity gradients energy, pressure retarded osmosis, pressure retarded osmosis membranes, power generation

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