期刊
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
卷 56, 期 7, 页码 4518-4530出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.2c00336
关键词
oily wastewater treatment; oil-in-water emulsion; membrane separation; electroresponsive metallic membrane; electro-enhanced antifouling
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [52070033, 21876020]
- National Key Research and Development Project [2019YFA0705803]
- 111 Program of Introducing Talents of Discipline to Universities [B13012]
In this study, a novel electro-enhanced membrane separation protocol was proposed for the efficient treatment of microsized emulsions. By rationally designing electroresponsive copper metallic membranes, oil fouling was mitigated and permeance and rejection were enhanced. The effects of electrical potentials and ionic strengths on separation performance and fouling mechanism were investigated.
Conventional separation membranes suffer from evitable fouling and flux decrease for water treatment applications. Herein, a novel protocol of electro-enhanced membrane separation is proposed for the efficient treatment of microsized emulsions (similar to 1 mu m) by rationally designing robust electroresponsive copper metallic membranes, which could mitigate oil fouling and coenhance permeance (from similar to 1026 to similar to 2516 L.m(-2).h(-1).bar(-1)) and rejection (from similar to 87 to similar to 98%). High-flux Cu membranes exhibit superior ductility and electrical conductivity, enabling promising electroactivity. Separation performance and the fouling mechanism were studied under different electrical potentials and ionic strengths. Application of negative polarization into a large-pore (similar to 2.1 mu m) Cu membrane is favorable to not only almost completely reject smaller-sized oil droplets (similar to 1 mu m) but also achieve antifouling and anticorrosion functions. Moreover, surfactants around oil droplets might be redistributed due to electrostatic repulsion, which effectively enhances the steric hindrance effect between neighboring oil droplets, mitigating oil coalescence and consequently membrane fouling. Furthermore, due to the screening effect of surfactants, the presence of low-concentration salts increases the adsorption of surfactants at the oil-water interface, thus preventing oil coalescence via decreasing oil-water interfacial tension. However, under high ionic strengths, the fouling mechanism converts from cake filtration to a complete blocking model due to the reduced electrostatic repulsion between the Cu membrane and oil droplets. This work would provide mechanistic insights into electro-enhanced antifouling for not only oil emulsion separation but also more water treatment applications using rationally designed novel electroresponsive membranes.
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