Experimental Investigation of Fabricated Graphene Nanoplates/Polystyrene Nanofibrous Membrane for DCMD.

Ahmad Abdullah, Abdulaziz Al-Qahatani, Mohammed Alquraish, Colin Baily, Salah El-Mofty, Ahmed El-Shazly

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Advancement of the Power-Law Model and Its Percolation Exponent for the Electrical Conductivity of a Graphene-Containing System as a Component in the Biosensing of Breast Cancer.Polymers · 2022
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Ahmad AbdullahDepartment of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Bisha, P.O. Box 551, Bisha 67614, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0003-2538-8120

Abdulaziz Al-QahataniDepartment of Biology, College of Science, University of Bisha, P.O. Box 551, Bisha 61922, Saudi Arabia.

Mohammed AlquraishDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Bisha, P.O. Box 551, Bisha 67614, Saudi Arabia.

Colin BailySchool of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK.

Salah El-MoftyDepartment of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Bisha, P.O. Box 551, Bisha 67614, Saudi Arabia.

Ahmed El-ShazlyChemical and Petrochemicals Engineering Department, Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology (E-JUST), Alexandria 21934, Egypt.

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Deputyship for Research and Innovation, Ministry of Education in Saudi Arabia UB-13-1442

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Abstract

In recent decades, the fabrication of composite membranes using nanoparticles has played a vital role in membrane distillation (MD) technique. It could make available membranes with superior characteristics as excellent candidates for MD technique. The most well-known obstacles regarding the MD method are the low productivity and high cost. Thus, fabricating membranes with superior properties is a significant challenge. In the current study, a composite membrane has been fabricated using 0.25, 0.5, and 0.75 weight percent (wt.%) of graphene nanoparticles (GNPs) with polystyrene (PS) as a base polymer and characterized using SEM, FTIR, and contact angle. The characterization results prove the successful fabrication using electrospinning and the validity of the fabricated membranes to be applied to direct contact membrane distillation (DCMD). In addition, a DCMD experimental setup has been designed to examine the performance of the fabricated membranes and compare the performance of blank PS with composite PS/GNPs membranes. The results show that all fabricated membranes produced an approximately similar average flux of about 10 kg/m

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electrospinningftirgraphene nanoplatesmembrane distillationmembrane fabrication

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PMID34685260

DOI10.3390/polym13203499

PMCPMC8537701

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