Sensitivity analysis of parameters on pure water flux for inside-out hollow ultrafiltration membrane fiber

2017 ◽  
Vol 98 ◽  
pp. 85-91
Author(s):  
Yanning Wang ◽  
Hongying Yuan ◽  
Zhichao Zhang ◽  
Yuzhong Zhang ◽  
Dawei Jing
2012 ◽  
Vol 528 ◽  
pp. 210-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xuan Wang ◽  
Hao Long Bai ◽  
Li Ping Zhang

Nanocrystalline cellulose was used to blend with polysulfone to improve the hydrophicility and mechanical properties of PS hollow fiber ultrafiltration membrane. The method of dry-jet/wet-spining was adopted to form the hollow fiber by the mechanism of phase-inversion. In addition, the content of NCC was increased gradually from 0% to 1 wt% to examin the permeation flux, rejection ratio of bovine serum albumin(BSA) and mechanical strength of PS hollow-fiber. We find that the pure water flux was soared when NCC content was increased. The tensile strength and elongation at break were also detected and calculated. The results indicated that the properties of PS hollow-fiber membrane with appropriate NCC content were enhanced. The hollow fiber membranes were also observed with scaning electron microscopy(SEM) to explore the porous structure


2013 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhamad Zaini Yunos ◽  
Zawati Harun ◽  
Hatijah Basri ◽  
Mohd Fikri Shohur ◽  
Mohd Riduan Jamalludin ◽  
...  

The influence of zinc oxide and silver (I) oxide in polysulfone ultrafiltration membrane was studied. The membranes were prepared via phase inversion method. The morphology, surface roughness, hydrophillicity and antibacterial properties of membrane were investigated using SEM, AFM and contact angle device consecutively. It was found that membrane with zinc oxide additive has excellent pure water flux as compared to silver (I) oxide. However silver (I) oxide has better humic acid rejection due to the tradeoff effect. SEM-EDX for PSf/silver (I) oxide reveals that the accumulation of silver on top area in cross section of membrane while for zinc oxide seems more concentrated on the bottom. Interestingly, the AFM results support the previous result when PSf/zinc oxide showed better surface roughness on the top of the membrane. Eventhough zinc oxide is known one of antibacterial material, however from qualitative experiment using disc diffusion test (e-coli), there is no inhibition ring for PSf/zinc oxide membrane as compared to membrane with PSf/silver (I) oxide membrane which shows excellence inhibition ring.


2020 ◽  
pp. 095400832095285
Author(s):  
Qifeng Liu ◽  
Yunhui Li ◽  
Honghua Wang ◽  
Ying Gao ◽  
Xingdi Zhang ◽  
...  

A series of phenolphthalein polyethersulfones, containing varying contents of carboxyl groups, were synthesized via SN2 nucleophilic reaction. Structure of the prepared copolymers was confirmed by 1H NMR and FTIR. The phenolphthalein polyethersulfone comprising carboxyl groups exhibited excellent hydrophilicity and mechanical properties in the fabrication of ultrafiltration membrane. The properties of the membrane were measured using scanning electron microscopy and ultrafiltration membrane evaluator. The membrane showed superior ultrafiltration performance with a pure water flux of 399 (L·m−2·h−1), which was 1.9 times higher than that of the pristine phenolphthalein polyethersulfone. The pure water flux of the membrane with the pore-forming agent Tween 80 was up to 1082 (L·m−2·h−1), and its BSA rejection was up to 97% at 0.1 MPa. This work provided a new resin material with better performance for water treatment membrane.


Author(s):  
Yujia Tong ◽  
Wenlong Ding ◽  
Lijian Shi ◽  
Weixing Li

Abstract Ultrafiltration membranes are widely used for the treatment of papermaking wastewater. The antifouling performance of polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) ultrafiltration membranes can be improved by changing the hydrophilicity. Here, a novel amphiphilic copolymer material, PVDF grafted with N-isobutoxy methacrylamide (PVDF-g-IBMA), was prepared using ultraviolet-induced Cu(II)-mediated reversible deactivation radical polymerization. The amphipathic copolymer was used to prepare ultrafiltration membrane via NIPS. The prepared PVDF-g-IBMA ultrafiltration membrane was estimated using 1H NMR, FT-IR, and DSC. The contact angle, casting viscosity, and the permeation performance of the PVDF-g-IBMA ultrafiltration membrane were also determined. The pure water flux, bovine serum albumin removal rate, and pure water flux recovery rate of the PVDF-g-IBMA ultrafiltration membrane were 432.8 L·m−2·h−1, 88.4%, and 90.8%, respectively. Furthermore, for the treatment of actual papermaking wastewater, the chemical oxygen demand and turbidity removal rates of the membrane were 61.5% and 92.8%, respectively. The PVDF-g-IBMA amphiphilic copolymer ultrafiltration membrane exhibited good hydrophilicity and antifouling properties, indicating its potential for treating papermaking wastewater.


2013 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhamad Zaini Yunos ◽  
Zawati Harun ◽  
Hatijah Basri ◽  
Mohd Fikri Shohur ◽  
Mohd Riduan Jamalludin ◽  
...  

The effects of different zinc oxide concentration on morphology, contact angle, surface roughness and rejection towards humic acid in polysulfone membrane were investigated. Flatsheet ultrafiltration membrane were prepared by using polysulfone as based polymer, polyethylene glycol as  pore forming agent, zinc oxide as manipulated additive and TAP as compatibilizer. In this study, N, methyl-2-pyrrolidone were used as solvent and water as non solvent. The membrane were prepared via phase inversion method. Results showed that pure water flux was enhanced by the presence of zinc oxide up to 1 wt% and tend to decrease beyond this concentration. The increased pure water flux was attributed to the increase in hydrophilicity and  surface roughness of membrane according to contact angle and AFM measurement. The rejection test with humic acid as solute revealed that by increasing zinc oxide concentration, rejection increases up to 98% at 2 wt% of zinc oxide. Therefore polysulfone/zinc oxide in this study can provide potential application for river water treatment which consist high humic acid concentration.


2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (7) ◽  
pp. 50
Author(s):  
Mohammed Amer Abdul-Majeed

In this study, polymeric ultrafiltration (UF) membranes were prepared by phase inversion method to obtain both antibacterial and organic antifouling properties. The membranes were cast from a solution of polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) and formative silver (Ag) nanoparticles were successfully immobilized on a polymer. This was done using a solvent N, N-dimethylformamide (DMF) which is a solvent for the PVDF polymer meanwhile it is a reducing agent for silver ion. The effect of silver nanoparticles additives on the performance of polymeric ultrafiltration membrane was verified. Chemical composition and morphology of the surfaces of the membranes were characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and scanning electron microscope (SEM). The antibacterial property of modified membrane and the influence of silver nanoparticles on pure water flux of composite membrane at 0.2 Mpa were also verified. The experimental results obtained concluded that the composite membrane properties have been improved by the integration of Ag nanoparticles. The grafted membrane with silver nanoparticles has shown a clear ability to inhibit the growth of E. coli, Pseudomonas Aeruginosa, and Bacillus Cereus. While the clean PVDF membrane (without any additives) did not show any effect of preventing the growth of these species of bacteria referred to above. The pure water flux, porosity and the mean pore size of composite membrane can reach 261.8 L/m2 h, 85.4%, and 0.0206 µm, respectively, and it was much more than that of pure PVDF membrane.  


2011 ◽  
Vol 480-481 ◽  
pp. 691-696 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Guo Wang ◽  
Xiao Guang Zhang ◽  
Shi Qi Guo ◽  
Ai Min Wang ◽  
Xiu Ju Wang ◽  
...  

Hydrophilic Polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) flat ultrafiltration membranes were prepared by wet-spinning method. The influence of blending ratio ( the mass ratio of PVDF and PAA), polymer concentration on preparation of blending modified hydrophilic PVDF ultrafiltration membranes were investigated, the technical parameters of preparation of hydrophilic PVDF membranes were determined, and hydrophilic PVDF membranes were prepared. Then, hydrophilic PVDF membranes were characterized in terms of IR spectra, contact angle, scanning electron microscopy images, pure water flux and rejection. The results showed that hydrophilic ultrafiltration membrane could be prepared with PAA and PVDF blends, the hydrophilicity improved greatly, and it was better than traditional PVDF membrane.


2011 ◽  
Vol 480-481 ◽  
pp. 201-206
Author(s):  
Li Guo Wang ◽  
Xiu Ju Wang ◽  
Ai Min Wang ◽  
Wen Juan Liu ◽  
Shi Qi Guo ◽  
...  

Hydrophilic Polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) hollow fiber ultrafiltration membranes were prepared by wet-spinning method. The effects of technical parameters of acrylic acid grafted onto PVDF on the performance of hydrophilic PVDF membranes were investigated via orthogonal test, the technical parameters of preparation of hydrophilic PVDF membranes were determined, and hydrophilic PVDF membranes were prepared. Then hydrophilic PVDF membranes were characterized in terms of breaking strength, breaking elongation, rupture pressure, pure water flux and rejection. The fouling properties and the conditions of acrylic acid grafted onto PVDF were also examined. The results showed that acrylic acid had been grafted onto PVDF, the breaking strength and rupture pressure improved greatly, and the fouling properties were better than PS hollow fiber UF membrane.


2017 ◽  
Vol 79 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Siti Khadijah Hubadillah ◽  
Mohd Hafiz Dzarfan Othman ◽  
A. F. Ismail ◽  
Mukhlis A. Rahman ◽  
Juhana Jaafar

Ceramic hollow fibre membrane (CHFM) demonstrated superior characteristics and performance in any separation application. The only problem associated with this kind of technology is the high cost. In order to effectively fabricate and produce low cost porous CHFM, a series of CHFMs made of kaolin were fabricated via combined phase inversion and sintering technique. The CHFMs from kaolin named as kaolin hollow fibre membranes (KHFMs) were studied at different kaolin contents of 35 wt.%, 37.5 wt.% and 40 wt.% sintered at 1200ºC. The result indicated that by varying kaolin contents, different morphologies were obtained due to changes in the viscosity of ceramic suspension containing kaolin. The optimum kaolin content for KHFM was identified. It was found that KHFM prepared at 37.5 wt% has a mechanical strength and pure water flux of A and B respectively.  


2014 ◽  
Vol 931-932 ◽  
pp. 168-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asmadi Ali ◽  
Mohamad Awang ◽  
Ramli Mat ◽  
Anwar Johari ◽  
Mohd Johari Kamaruddin ◽  
...  

It is well known that membrane with hydrophobic property is a fouling membrane. Polysulfone (PSf) membrane has hydrophobic characteristic was blended with a hydrophilic polymer, cellulose acetate phthalate (CAP) in order to increase hydrophilicity property of pure PSf membrane. In this study, membrane casting solutions containing 17 wt% of polymer was prepared via wet phase inversion process. The pure PSf membrane was coded as PC-0. PSf/CAP blend membranes with blend composition of 95/5, 90/10, 85/15 and 80/20 wt% of total polymer concentration in the membrane casting solutions were marked as PC-5, PC-10, PC-15 and PC-20 respectively. All of the membranes were characterized in terms of pure water flux and permeability coefficient in order to study their hydrophilicity properties. The investigated results shows that increased of CAP composition in PSf blend membranes has increased pure water flux, permeability coefficient and porosity of the blend membrane which in turn formed membrane with anti-fouling property.


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