A semi-permeable membrane may include a support layer and an active layer in contact with the support layer. The support layer includes a porous structure including a polymer and at least one metal (or metalloid) oxide in the porous structure. In the support layer, the amount of the metal (or metalloid) oxide present in a portion adjacent to the active layer is higher than the amount of the metal (or metalloid) oxide present in a portion farther from the active layer.

Systems and methods are provided for recovering helium from a feed comprising helium, carbon dioxide, and at least one of nitrogen and methane. The feed is separated in a first separator to form helium-enriched stream and a CO.sub.2-enriched stream. The helium-enriched stream is separated in a pressure swing adsorption unit to form a helium-rich product stream and a helium-lean stream. At least a portion of the helium-lean stream is recycled to the first separator with the feed. In some embodiments, a membrane separation unit is used to enhance helium recovery.

A porous membrane comprising PTFE blended with PFSA is disclosed.

Disclosed are a light-driven filtration antibacterial composite membrane and a preparation method and use thereof. The method for preparing the light-driven filtration antibacterial composite membrane includes: mixing dichloromethane and N,N-dimethylformamide to obtain a first solution; adding PCL particles to the first solution, and stirring until being uniform to obtain an electrospinning solution; adding a ZIF-8 powder to the electrospinning solution, and ultrasonically dispersing for at least 1 hour to obtain a PCL/ZIF-8 spinning solution; spraying the PCL/ZIF-8 spinning solution onto a PPCL@PDA/TAEG men-blown membrane to obtain the light-driven filtration antibacterial composite membrane.

The present invention relates to an anti-fouling, semi-permeable membrane comprising a porous support layer, a thin film composite (TFC) layer formed on a surface of the support layer, and a cross-linked polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) layer formed on top of the TFC layer, wherein the cross-linked PVA layer is the reaction product of PVA and a cross-linking agent, said cross-linking agent being a polybasic acid comprising three or more acid groups or precursors thereof. The obtained membrane shows a high water flux and a low roughness suitable for an effective membrane notable for feed solution having a tendency of fouling the membrane.

The disclosure relates to composite membranes for selective separation and processing of fluids and industrial applications.

Disclosed herein are membranes comprising: porous substrate; and two or more graphene oxide (GO) sheets disposed on the porous substrate, each GO layer comprising a plurality of GO flakes, each GO flake comprising a planar graphene structure with oxygen moieties extending therefrom, wherein the membrane, when a pressure from 10 bar to 50 bar of transmembrane pressure is applied from 1 hour to 48 hours, has an aqueous flux wherein the aqueous flux changes by 5% or less while the pressure is applied. The membranes can also include an intercalating agent disposed between the two or more GO sheets, the intercalating agent interacting with each GO sheet, wherein the intercalating agent provides a non-covalent stabilization of the two or more GO sheets. Also disclosed herein are methods of making and using the same and systems for implementing the same.

Disclosed are a solar seawater desalination membrane, a preparation method and a seawater desalination treatment method thereof. The preparation method includes: carrying out hydrophilic treatment on a first carbon cloth to obtain a second carbon cloth with hydrophilicity greater than that of the first carbon cloth; an average pore size of the second carbon cloth is of micron-scale; carrying out a coating treatment on the second carbon cloth based on a preset copper mesh to obtain a first cloth membrane; processing the first cloth membrane to obtain a second cloth membrane; the second cloth membrane includes a graphdiyne structure and the average pore size of the second cloth membrane is of nanometer-scale; processing the second cloth membrane to obtain the solar seawater desalination membrane. The solar seawater desalination membrane contains poly-dopamine particles, and the average pore size of the membrane is smaller than that of the second cloth membrane.

A bipolar membrane BP characterized in that particles 5 of a basic metal chloride are distributed in the interface between a cation-exchange membrane 1 and an anion-exchange membrane 3.

A membrane is a fluorine resin membrane having a network structure of a fluorine resin. The network structure includes first string-shaped bodies of the fluorine resin. The first string-shaped bodies have a diameter of 200 nm or more and 750 nm or less when viewed in a direction perpendicular to a principal surface of the fluorine resin membrane. When viewed in the direction, the fluorine resin membrane has, on at least one surface thereof, a region A that has a shape of a rectangle having a size of 8.3 m6.2 m and in which a number of the first string-shaped bodies extending from one long side to another long side of the rectangle is 1 or more and 5 or less. This membrane can be used in a waterproof membrane, and is suitable for enhancing waterproof performance while minimizing a sacrifice of air permeation performance.