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PVDF membrane for oil-in-water separation via cross-flow ultrafiltration process
Moslehyani, A1, Mobaraki, M2, Ismail, A.F3, Othman, M.H.D4, Mayahi, A5, Shamsaei, E6, Abdullah, M.S7, Razis, M8.
The objective of this study is to investigate the potential of ultrafiltration
polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF)-titanium dioxide (TiO2) membrane for oil-in-water
separator. PVDF polymeric matrix membrane is excellent in term of chemical and
thermal stabilities, which make it very promising to be used as a membrane matrix
for water separation. However, poor hydrophilic property of the PVDF has led to the
severe fouling during operation. Thus, current work was performed to investigate the
effect of incorporation of two additives i.e. polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) and
polyethylene glycol (PEG) in PVDF-TiO2 membrane, which fabricated using dry/wet
phase inversion technique. Membranes characterizations were performed using field
emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM), atomic force microscopy (AFM),
contact angle and UV-vis spectrophotometer. Accordingly, modified PVDF
membrane possessed good hydrophilicity property when the additives were added
into PVDF-TiO2 membrane matrix. In term of filtration performance, the experimental
results showed that oil rejection using PVDF-TiO2/PVP membrane were ~99.7%, which
met the requirement for discharge. On the other hand, PVDF-TiO2/PEG membrane
was shown more enhancement in terms of permeate flux by given over 64 (L/m2h)
at pressure of 2 bar gauge.
Affiliation:
- Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
- Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
- Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
- Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
- Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
- Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
- Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
- Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
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