期刊
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
卷 10, 期 2, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jece.2022.107346
关键词
PVDF; Membrane distillation; Carbon black; Superhydrophobic; Electrochemical cleaning
资金
- Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia [LRGS/1/2018/USM/01/1/4, 203/PJKIMIA/67215002]
- NICT
This study uses carbon black to improve the surface properties of polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) membrane in membrane distillation, resulting in a superhydrophobic surface. The addition of carbon black changes the pore structure and surface roughness of the membrane, enhancing its resistance to wetting. Through electrochemical cleaning, the membrane can restore its permeate flux. These findings are of great significance for the further development of membrane distillation technology.
Although membrane distillation (MD) operates efficiently with different types of feed, the membrane could be wetted by synthetic surfactants and natural amphiphiles. In this work, carbon black was used to improve the surface hydrophobicity of the polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) membrane produced through 3D imprinting. PVDF membranes blended with 2-5 wt% of carbon black showed PVDF characteristic peaks and interactions with carbon black in Fourier transform infrared spectra. The presence of carbon black in the dope solution caused the length of finger-like voids to reduce but the membrane thickness to increase. The pore size increased by adding 2 or 3 wt% of carbon black. A higher amount of carbon black resulted in reduced pore size and porosity due to pore blockage by carbon black. Nevertheless, carbon black particles increased the surface roughness to form a superhydrophobic surface without using any hydrophobic agent. Although the superhydrophobic PVDF/carbon black membrane showed similar permeate flux to the neat PVDF membrane in MD, it could be electrochemically cleaned within 4 min to restore its permeate flux after wetting by the salt solution containing surfactant. The membrane could be cleaned by hypochlorite (OCl- ) and hypochlorous acid (HOCl) or metal hydroxides pro-duced in electrochemical cleaning.
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