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Sun K, Lyu Q, Zheng X, Liu R, Tang CY, Zhao M, Dong Y. Enhanced water treatment performance of ceramic-based forward osmosis membranes via MOF interlayer. WATER RESEARCH 2024; 254:121395. [PMID: 38452527 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2024.121395] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2023] [Revised: 02/23/2024] [Accepted: 02/27/2024] [Indexed: 03/09/2024]
Abstract
Forward osmosis (FO) membrane processes could operate without hydraulic pressures, enabling the efficient treatment of wastewaters with mitigated membrane fouling and enhanced efficiency. Designing a high-performance polyamide (PA) layer on ceramic substrates remains a challenge for FO desalination applications. Herein, we report the enhanced water treatment performance of thin-film nanocomposite ceramic-based FO membranes via an in situ grown Zr-MOF (UiO-66-NH2) interlayer. With the Zr-MOF interlayer, the ceramic-based FO membranes exhibit lower thickness, higher cross-linking degree, and increased surface roughness, leading to higher water flux of 27.38 L m-2 h-1 and lower reverse salt flux of 3.45 g m-2 h-1. The ceramic-based FO membranes with Zr-MOF interlayer not only have an application potential in harsh environments such as acidic solution (pH 3) and alkaline solution (pH 11), but also exhibit promising water and reverse salt transport properties, which are better than most MOF-incorporated PA membranes. Furthermore, the membranes could reject major species (ions, oil and organics) with rejections >94 % and water flux of 22.62-14.35 L m-2 h-1 in the treatment of actual alkaline industrial wastewater (pH 8.6). This rational design proposed in this study is not only applicable for the development of a high-quality ceramic-based FO membrane with enhanced performance but also can be potentially extended to more challenging water treatment applications.
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- Kuo Sun
- School of Environmental Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao, Shandong 266580, China
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- College of Life and Environmental Science, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou 325035, China
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- College of Life and Environmental Science, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou 325035, China
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- Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, China
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- College of Life and Environmental Science, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou 325035, China.
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- School of Environmental Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China; College of Life and Environmental Science, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou 325035, China.
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Vatanpour V, Naziri Mehrabani SA, Safarpour M, Ganjali MR, Habibzadeh S, Koyuncu I. Fabrication of the PES Membrane Embedded with Plasma-Modified Zeolite at Different O 2 Pressures. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2023; 15:9892-9905. [PMID: 36776106 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c22237] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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In this research, the non-thermal glow discharge plasma process was implemented to modify the surface of natural clinoptilolite zeolite before incorporation into the polyethersulfone (PES) membrane. The influence of plasma gas pressure variation on the fouling resistance and separation performance of the prepared membranes was studied. Fourier transform infrared, field emission scanning electron microscopy, and X-ray diffraction analyses of the unmodified and modified clinoptilolites revealed the Si-OH-Al bond's development during plasma treatment and the change in surface characteristics. In terms of performance, increasing the plasma gas pressure during clinoptilolite treatment resulted in the twofold enhancement of water flux from 91.2 L/m2 h of bare PES to 188 L/m2 h of the membrane containing plasma-treated clinoptilolite at 1.0 Torr pressure. Meanwhile, the antifouling behavior of membranes was improved by introducing more hydrophilic functional groups derived from the plasma treatment process. Additionally, the enhanced dye separation of membranes was indicated by the separation of 99 and 94% of reactive green 19 and reactive red 195, respectively.
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- Vahid Vatanpour
- Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, Kharazmi University, Tehran 15719-14911, Iran
- National Research Center on Membrane Technologies, Istanbul Technical University, Maslak, Istanbul 34469, Turkey
- Environmental Engineering Department, Istanbul Technical University, Maslak, Istanbul 34469, Turkey
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- National Research Center on Membrane Technologies, Istanbul Technical University, Maslak, Istanbul 34469, Turkey
- Nano Science and Nano Engineering Department, Istanbul Technical University, Maslak, Istanbul 34469, Turkey
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Basic Science, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, Tabriz 53714-161, Iran
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- Center of Excellence in Electrochemistry, School of Chemistry, College of Science, University of Tehran, Tehran 14155-6619, Iran
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- Surface Reaction and Advanced Energy Materials Laboratory, Chemical Engineering Department, Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran 15875-4413, Iran
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- National Research Center on Membrane Technologies, Istanbul Technical University, Maslak, Istanbul 34469, Turkey
- Environmental Engineering Department, Istanbul Technical University, Maslak, Istanbul 34469, Turkey
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Kamarudin D, Hashim NA, Ong BH, Faried M, Suga K, Umakoshi H, Wan Mahari WA. Alternative fouling analysis of PVDF UF membrane for surface water treatment: The credibility of silver nanoparticles. J Memb Sci 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2022.120865] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Gholami S, Llacuna JL, Vatanpour V, Dehqan A, Paziresh S, Cortina JL. Impact of a new functionalization of multiwalled carbon nanotubes on antifouling and permeability of PVDF nanocomposite membranes for dye wastewater treatment. CHEMOSPHERE 2022; 294:133699. [PMID: 35090853 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2022.133699] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2021] [Revised: 12/29/2021] [Accepted: 01/17/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Here, novel hydroxyl and carboxyl functionalized multiwalled carbon nanotubes (AHF-MWCNT and ACF-MWCNT) were successfully synthesized and introduced for modification and antifouling improvement of the PVDF membrane. The blending effect of AHF-MWCNT and ACF-MWCNT on the morphology and surface properties of the PVDF membrane was explored by SEM, AFM, water contact angle, and zeta potential analysis. The results indicated that the membrane surface has become more hydrophilic, smoother as well more negative. In addition, the overall porosity and mean pore radius are increased by MWCNTs embedding. The filtration performance, antifouling and dye separation of the nanocomposite membranes were improved by adding any amounts of AHF-MWCNT and ACF-MWCNT in the PVDF membrane matrix. The carboxylic modification presented better performance than the hydroxyl functionalization. The 0.1 wt% ACF-MWCNT blended membrane presented an optimum performance with 46 L m-2 h-1 bar-1 permeability, 93% FRR, and 97.3% dye rejection. Consequently, embedding functionalized MWCNT in the PVDF membrane matrix was led to improvement of membrane characteristics and enhancement of pure water flux, antifouling feature, and dye separation. So, the functionalized MWCNT could be a promising additive for the PVDF membrane modification.
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- Sina Gholami
- University of Barcelona, Faculty of Chemistry, Department of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Chemistry, Martí i Franquès Street 1, 6th Floor, 08028, Barcelona, Spain; OdirLab Co, Carrer de Loreto, 44, 08029, Barcelona, Spain.
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- University of Barcelona, Faculty of Chemistry, Department of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Chemistry, Martí i Franquès Street 1, 6th Floor, 08028, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, Kharazmi University, 15719-14911, Tehran, Iran; Environmental Engineering Department, Istanbul Technical University, Maslak, Istanbul, 34469, Turkey.
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, Kharazmi University, 15719-14911, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, Kharazmi University, 15719-14911, Tehran, Iran
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- Chemical Engineering Department and Barcelona Research Center for Multiscale Science and Engineering, UPC-BarcelonaTECH, C/Eduard Maristany, 10-14 Campus Diagonal-Besòs, 08930, Barcelona, Spain
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Teng J, Zhang H, Lin H, Lu M, Xu X, Gao T, You X. Molecular level insights into the dynamic evolution of forward osmosis fouling via thermodynamic modeling and quantum chemistry calculation: Effect of protein/polysaccharide ratios. J Memb Sci 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2022.120588] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [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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An improved perm-selectivity prediction of forward osmosis membrane by incorporating the effect of the surface charge on the solute partitioning. J Memb Sci 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2021.119303] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Kim DH, Lee C, Nguyen TT, Adha RS, Kim C, Ahn SJ, Son H, Kim IS. Insight into fouling potential analysis of a pilot-scale pressure-assisted forward osmosis plant for diluted seawater reverse osmosis desalination. J IND ENG CHEM 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jiec.2021.03.048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Blazyte A, Alayande AB, Nguyen TT, Adha RS, Jang J, Aung MM, Kim IS. Effect of size fractioned alginate-based transparent exopolymer particles on initial bacterial adhesion of forward osmosis membrane support layer. J IND ENG CHEM 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jiec.2020.11.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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