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SEPARATION AND PURIFICATION TECHNOLOGY
Volume 125, Issue -, Pages 43-51Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.seppur.2013.12.043
Keywords
Nanofiltration; Trace organic contaminants (TrOCs); Pore radius; Rejection
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- Australian Research Council [DP0985389]
- Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Vietnam (MARD)
- University of Wollongong
- Viet Mard top-up Award
- Australian Research Council [DP0985389] Funding Source: Australian Research Council
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This study investigated the effect of feed temperature on membrane pore size and the rejection of trace organic contaminants (TrOCs) by the nanofiltration (NF) membrane NF270. Filtration experiments were conducted using a cross flow membrane system at 20, 30 and 40 degrees C. The membrane pore radius was estimated using the pore hindrance transport model at each temperature and the rejection data of three reference organic solutes (i.e. eiythritol, xylose and glucose) experimentally obtained in this study. The results suggest that the pore size of an NF membrane is dependent on the feed solution temperature. An increase in the feed temperature from 20 to 40 degrees C led to an increase in the effective pore radius from 0.39 to 0.44 nm. Consequently, the increase in the feed temperature also caused a considerable drop in the rejection of all TrOCs investigated in this study. The decrease in rejection observed here could be attributed to not only the increase in the solute diffusivity but also the enlargement of the membrane pore size. As the feed temperature increased, the decrease in rejection of neutral TrOCs was more severe than that of negatively charged compounds. This is because in addition to size exclusion (or steric hindrance) the rejection of negatively charged TrOCs is also governed by electrostatic interaction given that the membrane surface is also negatively charged. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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