Journal
SEPARATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Volume 48, Issue 13, Pages 1930-1940Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/01496395.2013.786728
Keywords
ceramic support; crack-free; dip-coating; membrane intermediate layer; nanocomposite
Funding
- Sahand University of Technology (SUT)
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The objective of this work was to develop a crack-free membrane intermediate layer on tubular ceramic supports via dip-coating. TiO2 submicron powder, Boehmite as a coupling agent, and SiO2 nanopowder as low melting-point sintering aid were used to deposit a thin and crack-free nanocomposite layer onto -Al2O3 supports. Effects of key parameters such as solid content, number of coated layers, the presence of coupling agent, and a low melting point nanopowder on physicochemical properties like the thickness, microstructure, pore size, pure water flux, and gas permeance of the final modified ceramic supports were investigated. The obtained results showed that after twice coating of support in 3wt.% bidispersed TiO2-Boehmite suspension, the pore size of the alumina substrate, approximate to 0.6 micron, was reduced to approximate to 0.1 by the uniform membrane intermediate layers with low permeation resistance could be prepared. Moreover, by adding SiO2 nanopowder, sintering temperature of intermediate layers decreases considerably (1000 to 700 degrees C).
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