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JOURNAL OF MEMBRANE SCIENCE
Volume 307, Issue 1, Pages 73-81Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2007.09.014
Keywords
pervaporation; polyamide; thin-film composite membrane; interfacial polymerization; positron annihilation spectroscopy
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Effect of chemical structures of an-tines on the performance of isopropanol dehydration by pervaporation through the polyamide thin-film composite membranes prepared by various amines reacting with TMC on the surfaces of the modified asymmetric polyacrylonitrile (mPAN) membranes was investigated. ATR-FTIR, SEM, AFM and water contact angle were used to characterize the chemical structures, morphologies and hydrophilicity of the polyamide active layers of the composite membranes. To investigate the correlation between the free volume of polyamide active layer and pervaporation performance, the free volume variation of the polyamide active layers was probed by positron annihilation spectroscopy (PAS) experiments performed using the slow positron beam. It was found that the pervaporation performance for separating 90 wt.% aqueous isopropanol solutions at 25 degrees C decreased in the order of EDA-TMC/mPAN membrane > MPDA-TMC/mPAN membrane > PIP-TMC/mPAN and HDA-TMC/rnPAN membranes. The relationship between the performance of isopropanol dehydration and the physicochemical properties of the polyamide layers, that is, the free volume, surface roughness and hydrophilicity seemed very well. (c) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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