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Ashok Kumar S, Moncarmel Johanna N, Beula Jenefer V, Srinivasan G, Kanimozhi G, Yuvarani G, Ridhamsha G, Prabu K, Govindaradjane S, Jayaraman S. Influence of monomers involved in the fabrication of a novel PES based nanofiltration thin-film composite membrane and its performance in the treatment of common effluent (CETP) textile industrial wastewater. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCE & ENGINEERING 2021; 19:515-529. [PMID: 34150255 PMCID: PMC8172651 DOI: 10.1007/s40201-021-00624-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2020] [Accepted: 02/02/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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OBJECTIVE In this article, monomers (tannic acid (TA) and m- phenylenediamine (MPD)) were used in the fabrication of a novel PES based thin-film composite nanofiltration (TFC-NF) membrane for the treatment of a common effluent treatment plant (CETP) of textile industrial wastewater. MEMBRANE SYNTHESIS PES support sheets and TFC layers were fabricated via non-solvent induced phase inversion and in-situ interfacial polymerization (IP) process. The ultra-thin active layer was synthesized via the IP process with monomers such as tannic acid (TA) and m- phenylenediamine (MPD). T and M series membranes correspond to (PES/x wt% TA, x = 2, 4, 6) as T1, T2, T3 -TA and (PES/x wt% MPD, x = 2, 4, 6) as M1, M2, M3-MPD respectively. M0 corresponds to PES which is the virgin membrane. RESULTS The chemical structure, surface morphology, surface roughness and surface properties were explored using fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM), atomic force microscopy (AFM) and contact angle, respectively. The filtration performance of the thin-film composite nanofiltration (TFC-NF) membranes was investigated by various properties like pure water flux, salt rejection, porosity, mean pore radius and antifouling analysis. CONCLUSION T1-TA membrane showed better water permeability, high salt rejection and better industrial effluent rejection with 94.4% of TDS that are suitable for industrial reuse and agricultural irrigation. Moreover, for T1-TA membrane, the water flux, porosity, mean pore radius, salt rejection, surface roughness and contact angle of 43.5lm- 2 h - 1, 47.1%, 16.7nm, 72.7%, 11.7nm and 41.48°was achieved respectively that was found to be higher than that of all the other fabricated membranes. Further, the rejection efficiency rate of textile effluent characteristics such as pH, turbidity, TDS, alkalinity, total hardness, BOD and COD were also achieved with maximum deduction in the T1-TA TFC-NF membrane compared to the M0-Virgin PES membrane. From the results, it can be confirmed that the T1-TA membrane significantly reduced the alkalinity, total hardness, BOD and COD rejections of 78%, 77.3%, 58.5% and 67.5% respectively, present in the effluent. Water flux recovery ratio (FRR) was improved from 74.6% for M0-Virgin PES membrane to 94.8% for T1-TA membrane. The modified TFC-NF membranes especially T1-TA, had better anti-fouling property and excellent hydrophilicity than the unmodified M0-Virgin PES membrane. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s40201-021-00624-x.
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- S. Ashok Kumar
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Pondicherry Engineering College, Pondicherry, India
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Pondicherry Engineering College, Pondicherry, India
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Pondicherry Engineering College, Pondicherry, India
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Pondicherry Engineering College, Pondicherry, India
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- Department of Physics, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, India
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Pondicherry Engineering College, Pondicherry, India
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Pondicherry Engineering College, Pondicherry, India
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Pondicherry Engineering College, Pondicherry, India
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- Department of Civil Engineering, Pondicherry Engineering College, Pillaichavady, Puducherry, India
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- Environmental & Water Technology Centre of Innovation, Ngee Ann Polytechnic, 599489 Singapore, Singapore
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Honarparvar S, Zhang X, Chen T, Alborzi A, Afroz K, Reible D. Frontiers of Membrane Desalination Processes for Brackish Water Treatment: A Review. MEMBRANES 2021; 11:246. [PMID: 33805438 PMCID: PMC8066301 DOI: 10.3390/membranes11040246] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2021] [Revised: 03/19/2021] [Accepted: 03/23/2021] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Climate change, population growth, and increased industrial activities are exacerbating freshwater scarcity and leading to increased interest in desalination of saline water. Brackish water is an attractive alternative to freshwater due to its low salinity and widespread availability in many water-scarce areas. However, partial or total desalination of brackish water is essential to reach the water quality requirements for a variety of applications. Selection of appropriate technology requires knowledge and understanding of the operational principles, capabilities, and limitations of the available desalination processes. Proper combination of feedwater technology improves the energy efficiency of desalination. In this article, we focus on pressure-driven and electro-driven membrane desalination processes. We review the principles, as well as challenges and recent improvements for reverse osmosis (RO), nanofiltration (NF), electrodialysis (ED), and membrane capacitive deionization (MCDI). RO is the dominant membrane process for large-scale desalination of brackish water with higher salinity, while ED and MCDI are energy-efficient for lower salinity ranges. Selective removal of multivalent components makes NF an excellent option for water softening. Brackish water desalination with membrane processes faces a series of challenges. Membrane fouling and scaling are the common issues associated with these processes, resulting in a reduction in their water recovery and energy efficiency. To overcome such adverse effects, many efforts have been dedicated toward development of pre-treatment steps, surface modification of membranes, use of anti-scalant, and modification of operational conditions. However, the effectiveness of these approaches depends on the fouling propensity of the feed water. In addition to the fouling and scaling, each process may face other challenges depending on their state of development and maturity. This review provides recent advances in the material, architecture, and operation of these processes that can assist in the selection and design of technologies for particular applications. The active research directions to improve the performance of these processes are also identified. The review shows that technologies that are tunable and particularly efficient for partial desalination such as ED and MCDI are increasingly competitive with traditional RO processes. Development of cost-effective ion exchange membranes with high chemical and mechanical stability can further improve the economy of desalination with electro-membrane processes and advance their future applications.
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- Soraya Honarparvar
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409, USA; (S.H.); (X.Z.); (T.C.); (K.A.)
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409, USA; (S.H.); (X.Z.); (T.C.); (K.A.)
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409, USA; (S.H.); (X.Z.); (T.C.); (K.A.)
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- Department of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409, USA;
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409, USA; (S.H.); (X.Z.); (T.C.); (K.A.)
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409, USA; (S.H.); (X.Z.); (T.C.); (K.A.)
- Department of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409, USA;
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Yu X, Zhu T, Xu S, Zhang X, Yi M, Xiong S, Liu S, Shen L, Wang Y. Second interfacial polymerization of thin‐film composite hollow fibers with
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for pervaporation dehydration. AIChE J 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/aic.17144] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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- Xi Yu
- Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Ministry of Education Wuhan China
- Hubei Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry and Service Failure School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science & Technology Wuhan China
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- Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Ministry of Education Wuhan China
- Hubei Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry and Service Failure School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science & Technology Wuhan China
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- Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Ministry of Education Wuhan China
- Hubei Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry and Service Failure School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science & Technology Wuhan China
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- Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Ministry of Education Wuhan China
- Hubei Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry and Service Failure School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science & Technology Wuhan China
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- Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Ministry of Education Wuhan China
- Hubei Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry and Service Failure School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science & Technology Wuhan China
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- Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Ministry of Education Wuhan China
- Hubei Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry and Service Failure School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science & Technology Wuhan China
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- Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Ministry of Education Wuhan China
- Hubei Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry and Service Failure School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science & Technology Wuhan China
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- Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Ministry of Education Wuhan China
- Hubei Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry and Service Failure School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science & Technology Wuhan China
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- Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Ministry of Education Wuhan China
- Hubei Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry and Service Failure School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science & Technology Wuhan China
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Kotlhao K, Lawal IA, Moutloali RM, Klink MJ. Antifouling Properties of Silver-Zinc Oxide Polyamide Thin Film Composite Membrane and Rejection of 2-Chlorophenol and 2,4-Dichlorophenol. MEMBRANES 2019; 9:E96. [PMID: 31387240 PMCID: PMC6723071 DOI: 10.3390/membranes9080096] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2019] [Revised: 07/09/2019] [Accepted: 07/12/2019] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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The silver-zinc oxide (Ag-ZnO) polyamide thin film composite (PA-TFC) membrane was prepared by interfacial polymerization. The Ag-ZnO/PA-TFC membrane was characterized by attenuated total reflectance fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR) for polyamide functional groups and contact angle for surface hydrophilicity. The Ag-ZnO/PA-TFC membrane was further characterized by Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) and Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) for morphology and surface roughness, respectively. The performance of the fabricated membrane was investigated using pure water flux, permeability, rejection, flux recovery, and fouling resistance using low molecular weight organic pollutants, 2-chlorophenol (2-CP) and 2,4-dichlorophenol (2,4-DCP). The results were compared to the neat (PA-TFC) membrane. It was observed that incorporation of Ag-ZnO nanocomposites into the PA-TFC membrane improved hydrophilicity, permeation, rejection, and fouling resistance properties of the membrane. The contact angle decreased from 62.8° to 54° for PA-TFC and the Ag-ZnO/PA-TFC membrane, respectively. The presence of Ag-ZnO enhanced permeability of the membrane from 0.9 (Lm-2h-1bar-1) to 1.9 (Lm-2h-1bar-1). Modification of the membrane with Ag-ZnO further showed an enhanced rejection of 2-CP and 2,4-DCP from 43% to 80% and 58% to 85%, respectively. The 2,4-DCP molecules were rejected more than 2-CP due to enhanced repulsive forces from the extra Cl ion. A high flux recovery of about 95% was achieved for the modified membrane compared to 64% for the neat membrane. The improved flux recovery was an indication of enhanced antifouling propensity.
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- Kate Kotlhao
- Faculty of Applied and Computer Sciences, Department of Chemistry, Vaal University of Technology, Private Bag X021, Vanderbijlpark 1900, South Africa
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- Faculty of Applied and Computer Sciences, Department of Chemistry, Vaal University of Technology, Private Bag X021, Vanderbijlpark 1900, South Africa
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- Faculty of Science, Department of Applied Chemistry, University of Johannesburg, P.O. Box 17011, Doornfontein, Johannesburg 2028, South Africa
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- Faculty of Applied and Computer Sciences, Department of Chemistry, Vaal University of Technology, Private Bag X021, Vanderbijlpark 1900, South Africa.
- Faculty of Applied and Computer Sciences, Department of Biotechnology. Vaal University of Technology, Private Bag X021, Vanderbijlpark 1900, South Africa.
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Beg MDH, Islam MR, Mamun AA, Heim HP, Feldmann M, Akindoyo JO. Characterization of polyamide 6.10 composites incorporated with microcrystalline cellulose fiber: Effects of fiber loading and impact modifier. ADVANCES IN POLYMER TECHNOLOGY 2018. [DOI: 10.1002/adv.22125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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- Mohammad Dalour Hossen Beg
- Faculty of Chemical and Natural Resources Engineering; Universiti Malaysia Pahang; Gambang Pahang Malaysia
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- Malaysian Institute of Chemical and Bioengineering Technology; University of Kuala Lumpur; Bandar Alor Gajah Melaka Malaysia
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- Institute of Materials Engineering; University of Kassel; Kassel Germany
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- Institute of Materials Engineering; University of Kassel; Kassel Germany
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- Institute of Materials Engineering; University of Kassel; Kassel Germany
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- Faculty of Chemical and Natural Resources Engineering; Universiti Malaysia Pahang; Gambang Pahang Malaysia
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Huang Y, Cay-Durgun P, Lai T, Yu P, Lind ML. Phenol Removal from Water by Polyamide and AgCl Mineralized Thin-Film Composite Forward Osmosis Membranes. Ind Eng Chem Res 2018. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.8b00205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Yangbo Huang
- College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei 430072, People’s Republic of China
- School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287, United States
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- School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287, United States
- Nanosystems Engineering Research Center for Nanotechnology-Enabled Water Treatment, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287, United States
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- School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287, United States
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- College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei 430072, People’s Republic of China
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- School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287, United States
- Nanosystems Engineering Research Center for Nanotechnology-Enabled Water Treatment, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287, United States
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