Smart Filter Membrane

膜过滤器可用于各种工业液体和气体分离应用，如海水淡化、石油钻探过程中的水/油分离和工业废水处理。滤膜的一个主要操作问题是，随着时间的推移，它们的使用容易受到污染，这导致降低了吞吐量，增加了能源消耗，并且需要昂贵的维护费用。该项目的目标是开发一种基于功能化石墨烯的低成本自清洁涂层技术，这种涂层一旦应用于工业膜，就能使其耐污染。这项技术已经在实验室规模的测试中得到了成功的证明。该项目由G2O Water Limited牵头，将把实验室规模的工作转化为可靠的工作流程，该流程可以扩大规模，以提高现有滤膜的性能。该涂层将由该联盟制定和验证，以便在许多不同的应用中部署，以确保所产生的智能产品能够推向市场，并随时可以应用于提高广泛的工业过程的性能。财务汇总表-如何完成这一部分

Membrane filters can be applied for a variety of industrial liquid and gas separations applications such as waterdesalination, water/oil separation during oil drilling and industrial waste water treatment. A major operationalissue with filter membranes is their tendency to foul with use over time, which results in lowering throughput,increasing energy consumption and the need for costly maintenance. The aim of this project is to develop a lowcost self-cleaning coating technology based on functionalised graphene, which once applied to industrialmembranes makes them resistant to fouling. The technology has already been demonstrated successfully inlab-scale tests. Led by G2O Water Limited, this project will translate the lab-scale work into a working robust,reliable manufacturing process which can be scaled-up to enhance the performance of existing filtermembranes. The coating will be formulated and validated by the consortium for deployment in a number ofdifferent applications, in order to ensure the resulting smart product can be taken to market and be readilyapplied to improve the performance of a broad range of industrial processes.Finance Summary Table – How to complete this section