چكيده به لاتين
The membrane separation technology has found a wide variety of applications in wastewater treatment. In this regard, the electrospinning technique has attracted considerable attention in recent years.
Electrospun nanofibrous membranes (ENMs) with unique properties including high porosity, high surface to volume ratio, interconnected open pore structure and high permeability can be obtained by straightforward electrospinning technique.
In this study, initially the response surface methodology (RSM) was utilized to determine the optimum condition of PES-based ENM preparation. Accordingly, PES solution electrospinning flow rate (0.8, 2.4 and 3.2 mL/h) with different post-treatment condition parameters, including hot-pressing time (0.5, 1 and 1.5 h), hot-pressing temperature (90, 150 and 210 °C) and hot-pressing pressure (0, 0.07 and 0.14 bar), were selected as independent factors and the optimization responses were water flux and rejection during oily wastewater treatments. Based on Box–Behnken design matrix, the optimal experimental conditions for water flux and rejection were obtained. The results of oil-in-water emulsion separation showed that the optimum levels of selected parameters were electrospinning flow rate for polymeric solution of 0.8 mL/h, hot-pressing time, temperature and pressure of 1.5 h, 210 °C and 0.14 bar, respectively. At these conditions, the water flux and rejection were about 4800 LMH and 79%, correspondingly. After that, at the obtained optimum conditions, PES/NaY electrospun membrane was prepared. The water flux and rejection of the PES/NaY electrospun membrane were found to be about 9000 LMH and 81%, respectively. The modified electrospun membrane showed regeneration capability so that the FRR% of the PES electrospun membrane was about 33% while that of hydrophilic NaY zeolite particles incorporated electrospun membranes were 73%. The zeolite enabled electrospun membrane show a lower Rir (27%) in comparison to the Rir of PES electrospun membrane (66%).
Keywords: Oily wastewater treatment, Electrospun nanofibrous membranes, Fouling, hot-pressing condition, PES/NaY.