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Fabrication of robust ceramic supported polymeric composite nanofiltration membrane for heavy metal contaminated wastewater treatment

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Title Fabrication of robust ceramic supported polymeric composite nanofiltration membrane for heavy metal contaminated wastewater treatment
 
Creator Bhowmick, Krishanu
Roy, Sanjukta
Bhowmick, Subhamoy
Jain, Rachna
Majumdar, Swachchha
Sahoo, Ganesh C
Mondal, Priyanka
 
Subject Environment and Pollution
 
Description Nanofiltration (NF) membranes with positive charge are essential for efficient removal of heavy metals and salts from waste water. In this work surface modified positively charged novel `ceramic-supported-polymeric' (CSP) composite NF membranes were fabricated with the copper ions embedded crosslinked polyethyleneimine polymer matrix over tubular ceramic substrate using facile dipcoating method. EDX, ATR-FTIR, XPS, FESEM, AFM and contact angle analyses were performed to characterize the chemical structures and morphologies of the prepared membranes. The composite NF membrane exhibited satisfactory pure water permeability (PWP) of 8.1 L.m(-2).h(-1).bar(-1) and promising salt (87.19 % and 74.41 % for Mg2+ and Ca2+, respectively) and heavy metal ion rejections (91.73 %, 83.15 % and 75.50 % for Zn2+, Ni2+ and Cd2+, respectively). Activation energy and overall size-exclusion-dehydration phenomena along with steric hindrance and Donnan electrostatic exclusion plays an important role for heavy metals and salts rejection. In addition, the membrane showed excellent antifouling properties (>99 % humic acid removal) with high flux recovery ratio (77.6 %) and low flux decline ratio (33 %) for 5 h operations (3rd cycle) together with outstanding antibiofouling ability towards Brevibacillusagri and Leclerciaadecarboxylata. Furthermore, excellent chemical stability of the membrane suggests its potential appli-cation for waste water treatment under critical conditions.
 
Publisher Elsevier
 
Date 2022-12
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Identifier Bhowmick, Krishanu and Roy, Sanjukta and Bhowmick, Subhamoy and Jain, Rachna and Majumdar, Swachchha and Sahoo, Ganesh C and Mondal, Priyanka (2022) Fabrication of robust ceramic supported polymeric composite nanofiltration membrane for heavy metal contaminated wastewater treatment. Journal of Water Process Engineering, 50. Art No-103287. ISSN 2214-7144
 
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