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Recovery of Caustic Soda in Textile Mercerization by Combined Membrane Filtration

복합 막분리 공정에 의한 섬유가공 공정에서의 가성소다 회수

  • Yang, Jeong-Mok (Green Engineering Team, Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (KITECH)) ;
  • Park, Chul-Hwan (Department of Chemical Engineering, Kwangwoon University) ;
  • Cho, Jin-Ku (Green Engineering Team, Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (KITECH)) ;
  • Kim, Sang-Yong (Green Engineering Team, Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (KITECH))
  • 양정목 (한국생산기술연구원 청정공정팀) ;
  • 박철환 (광운대학교 화학공학과) ;
  • 조진구 (한국생산기술연구원 청정공정팀) ;
  • 김상용 (한국생산기술연구원 청정공정팀)
  • Published : 2008.12.31
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Abstract

This study sought to establish the optimum operating condition for the recovery of caustic (NaOH) solution from mercerization in textile process. As main factors, the silt density index (SDI) evaluation of ceramic membrane for the application of nanofiltration/reverse osmosis (NF/RO) membrane, the recovery yield measurement of caustic solution for the application of polymeric membrane, the optimum condition of chemical cleaning for the membrane regeneration, the optimum removal condition of total organic carbon (TOC), turbidity, color, and the permeate flux of ceramic membrane/polymeric membrane combined process were investigated. As results, ceramic ultrafiltration (UF) in the first step and nanofiltration (NF) in the second step were found to be suitable for the removal of total suspended solid (TSS), residual organics, turbidity including color, and the recovery of caustic solution from caustic wastewater stream in mercerization process. When only the ceramic UF membrane was used, the rejection efficiency of both of TSS and turbidity was more than 99.0%, and the color and TOC were rejected about 74.7% and 49.2%, respectively. Meanwhile, the combined membrane precess of UF and NF membranes showed even more efficient removal abilities and thus more than 99.9% of TSS and turbidity, 87.7% of color, and 78.2% of TOC were removed. In particular, 91.3% of NaOH was successfully recovered with 83.7% of total volume in the combined membrane process. With this regard, a clean caustic solution was obtained in a high purity, which can be reused for mercerization process, expecting to offer economical benefits.

본 연구에서는 섬유가공공정 중 머서화공정으로부터 가성소다액를 회수하기 위한 최적의 운전조건을 확립하고자 하였다. 주요 인자들로는 NF/RO막의 적용을 위해 세라믹 막을 이용하여 파울링 지수를 평가, 고분자 막의 적용을 위해 가성소다액의 회수율을 측정, 막의 재생율 향상, 화학세정 조건, 유기물부하, 탁도 및 색도의 최적 제거조건, 그리고 세라믹 막과 고분자막의 복합공정에서의 투과플럭스를 조사하였다. 결과에 따르면, 1단계 공정의 세라믹 한외여과막과 2단계 공정의 나노여과막은 총부유고형물, 잔류유기물, 색도를 포함한 탁도의 제거 그리고 가성소다 용액의 회수에 적합한 공정구성임을 확인하였다. 한외여과막만을 단독으로 사용했을 경우, 총 부유물질과 탁도를 99.0%이상 제거하였고, 색도와 TOC는 각각 74.7%와 49.2%의 제거효율을 얻을 수 있었다. 반면에 세라믹 UF+NF 복합막 공정에서는 총 부유물질과 탁도를 99.9%이상 제거할 수 있었고, 색도는 87.7%, TOC는 78.2%의 제거효율을 얻을 수 있었다. 특히, 복합막 공정에서는 83.7%의 부피회수율일 때 91.3% 가성소다를 성공적으로 회수 할 수 있었다. 이러한 측면에서 복합공정을 통해 가성소다 폐수로부터 순도 높은 가성소다액을 회수할 수 있었으며, 회수된 가성소다액은 공정 내에 재사용이 가능하여 경제적인 이득을 기대할 수 있다.

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