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CHEMOSPHERE
Volume 313, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2022.137596
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Ceramic membrane; Coagulation; Membrane fouling; Pre-treatment; Water-in-oil emulsion
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Pre-coagulation of oil-water emulsions effectively mitigates membrane fouling on ceramic membranes by reducing the zeta potential of oil droplets, increasing droplet size, and alleviating hydrophobic interactions between droplets and the membrane surface.
Coagulation has been evaluated as an economical and effective pre-treatment method for controlling membrane fouling. We investigated the influence of the pre-coagulation of oil-water (O/W) emulsions on the formation of membrane fouling in the ceramic membrane process. The results confirmed that pre-coagulation effectively mitigated the fouling formation on the ceramic membrane surface during the O/W emulsion separation. The mechanism of mitigating membrane fouling by pre-coagulation was proposed, owing to the reduction in the zeta potential value of oil droplets by pre-coagulation, resulting in weak electrostatic attraction between oil droplets and ceramic membrane surfaces, and an increase in the size of the oil droplets by pre-coagulation, leading the formation of a cake layer fouling. In addition, the decrease in the hydrophobicity of oil droplets by pre -coagulation resulted in alleviating the hydrophobic interaction between oil droplets and membrane surface. The proposed fouling mechanism was supported by the characterization of the virgin and fouled membrane surfaces and the analysis of the fouling resistance ability of the membranes. Our study could be indicative of mitigation protocols that can be used to alleviate membrane fouling on ceramic membranes during oily wastewater treatment.
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