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In natural water, natural organic matter (NOM) components have been identified as precursors of disinfection byproducts. Nanofiltration has been widely recognized as a promising technology to remove NOM from natural water. Currently, the most challenging aspect is the often inevitable occurrence of membrane fouling, which is caused by NOM accumulation on the membrane surface, as in NOM removal in drinking water treatment and production. NOM fouling is considered to be governed by the interface relationship between NOM and the membrane surface in aqueous solution. Much work has been carried out, but the effect of hydrophilicity/-phobicity of NOM and the membrane surface on fouling behavior is still a controversial issue.[1-7] The controversy originates from the unilateral consideration of membrane wettability or foulant hydrophilicity/-phobicity, when in fact both need to be considered. In our study, both superhydrophilic and superhydrophobic membranes with stable structure have been successfully obtained using two facile hybrid approaches (see Fig. 1). The fouling behavior of NOM on superwetting nanofiltration membranes has been extensively investigated using humic acid (HA: model foulant) and real natural water. The extended Derjaguin-Landau-Verwey-Overbeek (XDLVO) approach and nanoindentor scratch tests suggested that the superhydrophilic membrane had the strongest repulsion force to HA due to the highest positive GTOT value and the lowest critical load. Excitation emission matrix analyses of natural water also indicated that the superhydrophilic membrane showed resistance to fouling by hydrophobic substances and therefore high removal thereof. Conversely, the superhydrophobic membrane showed resistance to fouling by hydrophilic substances and therefore high removal thereof (see Figs. 2 and 3). Long-term operation suggested that the superhydrophilic membrane had high stability due to its anti-NOM fouling capacity, which is crucial for practical application. Based on the different anti-fouling properties of the studied superwetting membranes, a combination of superhydrophilic and superhydrophobic membranes was examined to further improve the removal of both hydrophobic and hydrophilic pollutants. The RUV254 and RDOC could be increased to 83.6% and 73.3%, respectively, by a combination of superhydrophilic and superhydrophobic membranes. In view of the hydrophilic and hydrophobic NOM fouling behaviors on superwetting membrane surfaces, the superwetting strategy can be regarded as a very important approach for obtaining a membrane with both high NOM rejection and good anti-NOM fouling properties.
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年份: 2016
页码: 211-213
语种: 英文