Mitigation of membrane particulate fouling by nano/microplastics via physical cleaning strategies.

Cleaning Filtration membrane Fouling Gas scouring Microplastics Nanoplastics Shear forces

Journal

The Science of the total environment
ISSN: 1879-1026
Titre abrégé: Sci Total Environ
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 0330500

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
20 Sep 2021
Historique:
received: 13 04 2021
revised: 06 05 2021
accepted: 07 05 2021
pubmed: 23 5 2021
medline: 23 5 2021
entrez: 22 5 2021
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Membrane fouling by nano/microplastics (NP/MPs) is an emerging concern threatening the performance of water and wastewater treatment facilities. The NP/MPs can lead to surface adsorption, fouling and potential mechanical abrasion of the membranes. In this work, periodic gas scouring was applied during the filtration of nano/microplastics across ultrafiltration membranes to investigate the impact of shear forces on the adsorption of nano/microplastics. A series of surface energy and chemistry-modified membranes were also used including acrylic acid, cyclopropylamine and hexamethyldisiloxane plasma-modified membranes, allowing for a set of materials with controlled hydrophilicity, roughness and surface charge. Bubbling gas within the system at a gas flow rate of 0.5 to 1 L·min

Identifiants

pubmed: 34022574
pii: S0048-9697(21)02760-1
doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.147689
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Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

147689

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

Auteurs

Marie Enfrin (M)

University of Surrey, Chemical and Process Engineering, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH, United Kingdom; Deakin University, Institute for Frontier Materials, Waurn Ponds 3216, Victoria, Australia. Electronic address: m.enfrin@surrey.ac.uk.

Judy Lee (J)

University of Surrey, Chemical and Process Engineering, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH, United Kingdom. Electronic address: j.y.lee@surrey.ac.uk.

Anthony G Fane (AG)

University of New South Wales, UNESCO Centre for Membranes, School of Chemical Engineering, Sydney 2052, New South Wales, Australia.

Ludovic F Dumée (LF)

Khalifa University, Department of Chemical Engineering, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; Research and Innovation Center on CO(2) and Hydrogen, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; Center for Membrane and Advanced Water Technology, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

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