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Title: | Fouling behaviors of polybenzimidazole (PBI)-polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS)/polyacrylonitrile (PAN) hollow fiber membranes for engineering osmosis processes | Authors: | Chen, S.C. Fu, X.Z. Chung, T.-S. |
Keywords: | Forward osmosis Fouling Polybenzimidazole Pressure retarded osmosis Reverse salt flux |
Issue Date: | 17-Feb-2014 | Citation: | Chen, S.C., Fu, X.Z., Chung, T.-S. (2014-02-17). Fouling behaviors of polybenzimidazole (PBI)-polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS)/polyacrylonitrile (PAN) hollow fiber membranes for engineering osmosis processes. Desalination 335 (1) : 17-26. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.desal.2013.12.005 | Abstract: | This paper investigated the individual effects of reverse salt flux and permeate flux on fouling behaviors of as-spun and annealed polybenzimidazole (PBI)-polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS)/polyacrylonitrile (PAN) hollow fiber membranes under forward osmosis (FO) and pressure retarded osmosis (PRO) processes. Two types of membrane fouling had been studied; namely, inorganic fouling (CaSO4·2H2O gypsum scaling) during FO operations and organic fouling (sodium alginate fouling) during PRO operations. It is found that gypsum scaling on the membrane surface may be inhibited and even eliminated with an increase in reverse MgCl2 flux due to competitive formations of MgSO4° and CaSO4·2H2O. In contrast, the increase of reverse NaCl flux exhibits a slight enhancement on alginate fouling in both FO and PRO processes. Comparing to the reverse salt flux, the permeate flux always plays a dominant role in fouling. Therefore, lesser fouling has been observed on the membrane surface under the pressurized PRO process than FO process because the reduced initial flux mitigates the fouling phenomena more significantly than the enhancement caused by an increase in reverse NaCl flux. © 2013 Elsevier B.V. | Source Title: | Desalination | URI: | http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/88960 | ISSN: | 00119164 | DOI: | 10.1016/j.desal.2013.12.005 |
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