Research Article

About Merging Threshold and Critical Flux Concepts into a Single One: The Boundary Flux

Table 1

Experimental setup for UF and NF, valid for all feedstock.

UFNF

Feed flow rate L h−1 600600
Temperature °C 20 ± 120 ± 1
Membrane IDDesal Osmonics GM2540Desal Osmonics DK2540
Module typeSpiral woundedSpiral wounded
Membrane area m−2 2.512.51
Average pore size nm 2.00.5