Toray Industries, Inc.

Shunsuke Tabayashi

Takao Sasaki

Masahiro Kimura

Hiroho Hirozawa

Kentaro Takagi

Yoshiki Okamoto

Hiroyuki Yamada

Hiroki Minehara

Masaki Higashi

Takashi Yoshino

Yoshie Marutani

Yuta Amano

Ryosuke Okanishi

Takafumi Ogawa

Shuji Furuno

Yuji Tanaka

Hiroaki Tanaka

Akira Katayama

Keisuke Yoneda

Hiroshi Umetani

The present invention relates to a composite semipermeable membrane including: a support membrane; and a separation functional layer provided on the support membrane, in which the separation functional layer includes a thin membrane, the thin membrane has a fold structure including a plurality of protrusions, an actual length L of the thin membrane per 1 μm length of the support membrane in a cross-sectional direction perpendicular to a membrane surface is 3.0 μm or more, and a thickness of the thin membrane in the protrusion is 15 nm or more.

Composite semipermeable membrane

The present invention relates to a composite semipermeable membrane including: a support membrane; and a separation functional layer provided on the support membrane, in which the separation functional layer includes a thin membrane, the thin membrane has a fold structure including a plurality of protrusions having a height of 10 nm or more, and in the fold structure, a ratio (T100/T25) is less than 0.95, where T25 is a thickness of the thin membrane in a region of 0% to 25% of the height of the protrusion and T100 is a thickness of the thin membrane in a region of 50% to 100% of the height of the protrusion.

The present invention relates to a composite semipermeable membrane including: a support membrane; and a separation functional layer provided on the support membrane, in which the separation functional layer comprises a plurality of protrusions formed of a thin membrane, and at least a part of the plurality of protrusions has a ratio (Wa/Wb) of larger than 1.3 in cross sections at arbitrary ten positions each having a length of 2.0 μm in a membrane surface direction of the support membrane, provided that Wa is a maximum width of the protrusion and Wb is a root width of the protrusion.

A composite semipermeable membrane including: a substrate; a porous supporting layer formed on the substrate; and a separation functional layer formed on the porous supporting layer, in which the separation functional layer contains crosslinked wholly aromatic polyamide as a main component and contains a carboxy group, a ratio of (molar equivalent of the carboxy group)/(molar equivalent of an amide group) in functional groups contained in the separation functional layer is 0.40 or more, and an average ratio of oxygen atoms/nitrogen atoms in front and rear sides of the separation functional layer is 0.95 or less.

Composite semipermeable membrane and production thereof

The present invention provides a separation membrane and a separation membrane element capable of exhibiting a good water production performance even at a high temperature and also excellent handleability and quality. The separation membrane of the present invention includes a separation membrane main body having a feed-side face and a permeate-side face; and a permeate-side channel member fixed onto the permeate-side face of the separation membrane main body, and the permeate-side channel member includes polypropylene as a main component and satisfies the following requirements (a) to (c): (a) a softening point temperature is 60&#xb0; C. or higher; (b) a tensile elongation in a standard state is 10% or more; and (c) a yield point stress under a wet condition at 50&#xb0; C. is 2 MPa or more.

Separation membrane, sheet channel material, and separation membrane element

A separation membrane element of the present invention includes: a water collection tube; and a plurality of separation membrane leaves stacked on each other and wound around the water collection tube, each of the separation membrane leaves includes one or more separation membranes each having a feed-side face and a permeate-side face and is configured so that the feed-side faces face each other, and a sheet having a plurality of projections fixed thereto is provided between the permeate-side faces of the separation membrane leaves stacked on each other. Regarding a height of the projections, a ratio of the maximum height to the minimum height is from 1.10 to 1.50, and a variation coefficient of the height is from 0.02 to 0.15, and an impregnation ratio of the projections into the sheet is from 10% to 100%.

Separation membrane element

The present invention provides a separation membrane and a separation membrane element which are capable of exhibiting good water production performance and excellent in handleability and process passage. A separation membrane of the present invention is a separation membrane including: a separation membrane main body having a feed-side face and a permeate-side face; and a permeate-side channel member adhered to the permeate-side face of the separation membrane main body, in which the permeate-side channel member includes a composition containing at least a high-crystalline polypropylene (A) and satisfies the following requirements (a) and (b):

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Shunsuke Tabayashi