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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Chemosphere. 2023 Apr 29;332:138811. doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2023.138811

Table 2:

Water Permeance Results by Filter Type

Filter 1 L Water Flux Time @ 97.9 kPa (min) Absolute Water Flow Rate (mL • min−1) Area-normalize Water Flow Rate (mL • min−1 • mm−2) Effective Filter Surface Area (mm2)
PTFE 7.79 ± 0.07 128 ± 1.14 1.05 122.7
PCTE 9.37 ± 0.21 107 ± 2.37 0.87 122.7
PCTEG 37.8 ± 1.17 26.4 ± 0.82 0.22 122.7
PS 148 ± 3.53 6.76 ± 0.16 0.07 100.0
MSSN-Au 6.39 ± 0.17 156 ± 4.11 24.8 6.3

Notes:

1.

Abbreviations: polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), polycarbonate track-etched (PCTE), polycarbonate track-etched gold-coated (PCTEG), porous silicon (PSi), microslit silicon nitride gold-coated (MSSN-Au).

2.

One-liter timed passage data are reported as mean ± standard deviation (n = 3). Absolute flow rate data are reported as mean passage time / 1,000 ± coefficient of variation, and those values were further divided by membrane surface area to calculate surface area-normalized flow rates.