Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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6593290 | Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering | 2017 | 34 Pages |
Abstract
The hydrophobically modified ceramic membranes have great potential for energy-efficient membrane distillation. In this work, flat-sheet ceramic membranes with a superhydrophobic surface were fabricated by grafting 1H,1H,2H,2H-perfluorooctyltrichlorosilane or 1H,1H,2H,2H-perfluorodecyltriethoxysilane and followed by ultraviolet irradiation. The surface water contact angle was improved from 46° of original ceramic membrane to 159°, which exhibited a stable and excellent superhydrophobic effect. The modified membranes showed a high flux of 27.28 kg·mâ 2·hâ 1 and simultaneously maintained an excellent retention rate of 99.99%, when used in vacuum membrane distillation process for treatment of a 1 wt% NaCl (75 °C) aqueous solution. These results suggested that superhydrophobic modification of ceramic surface is a facile and cost-effective way to achieve higher membrane distillation performance. The superhydrophobically-modified ceramic membrane with an excellent desalination capacity would show considerable potential in practical membrane distillation utilizations.
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Authors
Yanhui Yang, Qianqian Liu, Haizhi Wang, Fusheng Ding, Guoshan Jin, Chunxi Li, Hong Meng,