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JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
Volume 171, Issue -, Pages 927-933Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.10.090
Keywords
Polymer-enhanced ultrafiltration; Industrial wastewaters; Heavy metal removal; Complexation; Chitosan; Carboxymethyl cellulose
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- region of Bourgogne Franche-Comte [2016Y-04563]
- French Embassy in Mauritania
- Agence de l'Eau and FEDER (Nirhofex program, Innovative techniques for wastewater treatment)
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Reclaiming of wastewaters contaminated by heavy metals has become a major challenge over the last decades. For this reason, nanoporous membrane processes have awaken the interest of industry and local community, and the possible ways to improve their performances has become a priority goal for researchers. Metal removal enhancement by polymer addition is a potential way that is deeply investigated herein on nickel ion rejection with chitosan and carboxymethyl cellulose addition. Due to the vanishing of electrostatic interactions induced by the large amount of salt usually contained in effluents, ion rejection consequently drastically drops. However, it is highlighted that a sufficient addition of polymer (higher than 10(-2) M of monomer unit) can offset this decrease and allow good metal removal, while permeation flux is reduced by increased viscosity. Performances are greatly affected by the pH of the filtered solution whose increase notably improves the metal rejection. Finally, ultrafiltration of an industrial discharge water with and without chitosan enhancement step shows that the rejection increase generated by the polymer addition is very low due to the competing phenomenon between the various species present in the complex mixture. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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