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JOURNAL OF POLYMERS AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Volume 27, Issue 2, Pages 318-332Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10924-018-1341-1
Keywords
Carboxymethyl cellulose; Cellulose nanofibrils; Casting; Membrane; Dye removal
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Funding
- EU FP7 (Project NanoSelect) [280519]
- Slovenian Research Agency [L2-7576]
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Water-stable and eco-friendly membranes were fabricated from carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) acting as anionic adsorbent and cellulose nanofibrils (CNFs) as strengthening filler by solvent- and unidirectional freeze-casting processes, both supported with simultaneous citric acid (CA) mediated cross-linking. Spectroscopic, thermogravimetric and potentiometric titration techniques were applied to evaluate the efficacy of the cross-linking as well as to quantify the processing-dependant surface charge. In addition, the CMC/CNF assembling and membrane porosity were identified microscopically as the combinatorial effect of components ratio and the applied fabrication technique. Finally, the membrane's cationic dyes adsorption capacity and kinetic were evaluated depending on the dyes ionization constants, solution pH, and the contact time using batch equilibrium experiment, and further evaluated for filtration performance at optimal pH. The resulting, freeze-casted membranes demonstrate anisotropic to isotropic and highly (>90%) porous structures with gradient pore sizes (from few nm up to 200 mu m range). This provides relatively high and stable flux rates (150-190 kL/m(2) h MPa) with 100% cationic dye adsorption, fast dynamic (8.536-5.446kg/g min) and capacity (1828-1398g/kg), which highlight their potential in dead-end filtration technologies without need for additional separation step. The similar dye adsorption capacity was assessed for denser and nano-porous (<50nm) solvent-casted membranes, however, with much lower and time-declining flux rates (100-10L/m(2) h MPa), demonstrating their potential usage in spiral wound-cross-flow modules. Both types of membranes anyhow showed high dye removal capacity ( 90%) even after 4th (solvent-casted) and 50th (freeze-casted) reusing cycle, present a high-value alternative to commercial activated carbons or other bio-nano-absorbents.
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