Fabricating robust thin film composite membranes reinforced on woven mesh backing fabric support for pressure assisted and forward osmosis: A dataset

Soleyman Sahebi; Ho Kyong Shon; Sherub Phuntsho; Bahman Ramavandi

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2018.10.007

Fabricating robust thin film composite membranes reinforced on woven mesh backing fabric support for pressure assisted and forward osmosis: A dataset

Data Brief. 2018 Oct 4:21:364-370. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2018.10.007. eCollection 2018 Dec.

Authors

Soleyman Sahebi^{1

2}, Ho Kyong Shon³, Sherub Phuntsho³, Bahman Ramavandi⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department for Management of Science and Technology Development, Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
² Faculty of Environment and Labour Safety, Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
³ Centre for Technology in Water and Wastewater, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), PO Box 123, 15 Broadway, NSW 2007, Australia.
⁴ Environmental Health Engineering Department, Faculty of Health and Nutrition, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran.

Abstract

The data presented in this paper are produced as part of the original research article entitled "Thin-film composite membrane on a compacted woven backing fabric for pressure assisted osmosis" (Sahebi et al., 2017). This article describes how to fabricate a defect free membrane for forward osmosis (FO) and pressure assisted osmosis (PAO) on the woven mesh backing fabric support. Casting polymer on backing fabric support may limit the interfacial polyemirization due to wrinkled membrane surface. This paper presents data obtained from two different backing fabrics used as support for fabrication of thin film composite FO membrane. Backing fabric support were woven polyester mesh with different opening size. The data include the characterization of the intrinsic properties of the membrane samples, SEM and their performance under FO process. The structural parameters (S value) of the substrate were computed from thickness and porosity of the substrates. Thin film composite (TFC) membrane achieved a water flux of 8.1 L m² h^-1 in FO process and 37 L m² h^-1 using 0.5 M NaCl as draw solution (DS) and deionised (DI) water as the feed solution (FS) when applied hydraulic pressure was 10 bar.

Keywords: Forward osmosis; Pressure assisted osmosis; Thin film composite; Woven mesh backing fabric support.