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Recovery of Caustic Soda in Textile Mercerization by Combined Membrane Filtration  

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))
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Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers / v.30, no.12, 2008 , pp. 1273-1280 More about this Journal
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.
Keywords
Recovery; Caustic Soda; Mercerization; Ceramic Membrane; Combined Membrane Filtration;
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