期刊
POLYMERS
卷 13, 期 12, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/polym13121907
关键词
cellulose acetate; cigarette waste; membrane fabrication; crossflow filtration; oily wastewater; phase inversion
资金
- Centre for Advanced Integrated Membrane System
The study successfully utilized waste cigarette butt to create an eco-friendly CA membrane for treating oil/water emulsion with a rejection rate of over 94%. The CA membrane showed good structural properties and hydrophilicity characteristics compared to the established PVDF and PSF membranes.
The increasing rate of oil and gas production has contributed to a release of oil/water emulsion or mixtures to the environment, becoming a pressing issue. At the same time, pollution of the toxic cigarette butt has also become a growing concern. This study explored utilization of cigarette butt waste as a source of cellulose acetate-based (CA) polymer to develop a phase inverted membrane for treatment of oil/water emulsion and compare it with commercial polyvinylidene difluoride (PVDF) and polysulfone (PSF). Results show that the CA-based membrane from waste cigarette butt offers an eco-friendly material without compromising the separation efficiency, with a pore size range suitable for oil/water emulsion filtration with the rejection of >94.0%. The CA membrane poses good structural property similar to the established PVDF and PSF membranes with equally asymmetric morphology. It also poses hydrophilicity properties with a contact angle of 74.5 degrees, lower than both PVDF and PSF membranes. The pore size of CA demonstrates that the CA is within the microfiltration range with a mean flow pore size of 0.17 mu m. The developed CA membrane shows a promising oil/water emulsion permeability of 180 L m(-2) h(-1) bar(-1) after five filtration cycles. However, it still suffers a high degree of irreversible fouling (>90.0%), suggesting potential future improvements in terms of membrane fouling management. Overall, this study demonstrates a sustainable approach to addressing oil/water emulsion pollution treated CA membrane from cigarette butt waste.
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