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Hydrophobic ceramic membranes fabricated via fatty acid chloride modification for solvent resistant membrane distillation (SR-MD)

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JOURNAL OF MEMBRANE SCIENCE
卷 658, 期 -, 页码 -

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DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2022.120715

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Hydrophobic modification; Ceramic membranes; Fatty acid chloride; Solvent resistant membrane distillation

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  1. Singapore Economic Development Board to the Singapore Membrane Technology Centre
  2. Nanyang Environment & Water Research Institute at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

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Solvent resistant membrane distillation (SR-MD) is a novel technology that effectively separates water from waste streams containing solvents with high boiling points. This study proposes a new hydrophobic modification method using fatty acid chloride (FAC) as a greener and cheaper alternative to silanes. The modified ceramic membranes exhibited high hydrophobicity and showed promising performance in SR-MD for the treatment of challenging wastewater containing organic solvents.
Solvent resistant membrane distillation (SR-MD) is a novel technology to effectively separate water from waste streams containing solvents with high boiling points, avoiding the high chemical costs and release of harmful gas in conventional treatments. Ceramic membranes are promising for this process as they are highly stable chemically but they require modification to tune the hydrophilicity to hydrophobicity. However, the widely used silanization for hydrophobic modification often involves expensive chemicals and may produce toxic substances. Here, we present a new hydrophobic modification method with the use of fatty acid chloride (FAC), as a greener and cheaper alternative to silanes. In the grafting reaction, the acyl chloride groups react with the -OH groups on the ceramic membranes to form strong ester bonds. We successfully grafted stearoyl chloride (SC) and palmitoyl chloride (PC) on the ceramic tubular membranes. With long carbon chains grafted, the modified membranes exhibited high hydrophobicity with a water contact angle > 141 and a liquid entry pressure > 3 bar. When tested in SR-MD with a feed solution containing 50 wt% dimethyl sulfoxide, the PC-modified membrane demonstrated a flux of 3.2 kg m(- 2) h(-1), with rejection > 98% and separation factor > 110 at 60 C, and a high flux of 4.5 kg m(- 2) h(-1) with rejection > 96% at 70 C. The FAC-modified membranes allow a cost-effective treatment of challenging wastewater containing organic solvents through SR-MD.

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