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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Volume 45, Issue 20, Pages 8935-8940Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/es202219e
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- National Science Foundation [CBET-0931739]
- Div Of Chem, Bioeng, Env, & Transp Sys
- Directorate For Engineering [0931739] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Membrane fouling by natural organic matter (NOM) was investigated in microgranular adsorptive filtration (mu GAF) systems, in which a thin layer of adsorbent is pre-deposited on low-pressure membranes. The adsorbents tested included heated aluminum oxide particles (HAOPs), ion exchange (IX) resin, and powdered activated carbon (PAC). Size exclusion chromatography (SEC) separated the NOM into four apparent MW fractions with significant UV(254). HAOPs and the IX resin performed almost identically with respect to removal of these fractions, and differently from PAC. However, while HAOPs and PAC reduced fouling substantially, IX resin did not, indicating that fouling could not be attributed to the NOM fractions detected by SEC. Rather, the key foulants appear to comprise a very small fraction of the NOM with almost no UV(254) absorbance. Alginate, a strongly fouling surrogate for natural polysaccharides, is adsorbed effectively by HAOPs, but not by DC resin or PAC, suggesting that polysaccharides sometimes play a key role in membrane fouling by NOM.
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