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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCE
Volume 278, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2023.118925
Keywords
Fouling; Cleaning efficiency; Membranes; Early warning monitor; Low magnetic field MRI; NMR Patterson functions
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Low magnetic field NMR technology is used to detect fouling in multi-fiber hollow fiber membrane modules during a fouling-cleaning cycle. The coherence signal magnitude is strongly correlated with the number of fouled fibers, providing a high sensitivity early warning and monitoring the efficiency of cleaning.
Early fouling warning is important for the economical operation of membrane separation systems. In parallel multi-channel flow systems, flow re-distribution between channels due to fouling is often associated with maloperation. In the current research we use low magnetic field NMR to monitor multi-fiber hollow fiber membrane modules undergoing a fouling-cleaning cycle and show that rapid detection of fouling is possible by detecting the loss of signal coherence associated with flow re-distribution within the 401 hollow fiber membrane module. This effect is demonstrated to be both reproducible, and reversible via membrane cleaning. The results demonstrate a strong correlation between the coherence signal magnitude and the number of fibers fouled. This may be used in practice for high sensitivity early warning, and to monitor the efficiency of cleaning. This approach may also be particularly useful in the case of detecting residual fouling after cleaning, evidenced in this research by significant flow re-distribution between the before fouling and after cleaning signal coherence.
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