Characterizing salt permeability in polyamide desalination membranes using electrochemical impedance spectroscopy.

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Abstract
Improving the performance of desalination membranes requires better measurements of salt permeability in the polyamide separating layer to elucidate the thermodynamic and kinetic components of membrane permselectivity. In this work, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) is introduced as a technique to measure the salt permeability and estimate the salt partition coefficient in thin polyamide films created using molecular layer-by-layer deposition. The impedance of supported polyamide films ranging in thickness from 3.5 nm to 28.5 nm were measured in different electrolyte solutions. Impedance spectra were modeled with equivalent circuits containing resistive and capacitive elements associated with the EIS measurement system as well as characteristic low-frequency parallel resistive and capacitive elements that are associated with the polyamide film. The characteristic polyamide membrane resistance increases with film thickness, decreases with solution concentration, and is an order of magnitude greater for a divalent cationic solution than for a monovalent cationic solution. For each polyamide film, salt permeability is calculated from the membrane resistance, and a salt partition coefficient is estimated. At the highest solution concentration measured, which is representative of brackish water desalination conditions, the calculated salt permeabilities range from = 1.3 × 10 m s to 3.9 × 10 m s, and the estimated salt partition coefficients range from = 0.008 to 0.016. These measurements demonstrate that EIS is a powerful tool for studying membrane permselectivity through the measurement of salt permeability in thin polyamide films.
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Authors Shaffer, Devin L;Feldman, Kathleen E;Chan, Edwin P;Stafford, Gery R;Stafford, Christopher M;
Journal journal of membrane science
Year 2019
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10.1016/j.memsci.2019.04.062
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Keywords
permeability membrane polyamide electrochemical impedance spectroscopy

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