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http://dx.doi.org/10.4491/KSEE.2013.35.12.877

Application of Ceramic MF Membrane at the Slow Sand Filtration Process  

Choi, Kwang-Hun (Doosan Co.)
Park, Jong-Yul (Metawater Co.)
Kim, Su-Han (Department of Civil Engineering, Pukyong National University)
Kim, Jeong-Sook (Department of Energy & Environmental Engineering, Dongseo University)
Kang, Lim-Seok (Department of Environmental Engineering, Pukyong National University)
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Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers / v.35, no.12, 2013 , pp. 877-882 More about this Journal
Abstract
The application of ultrafiltration (UF) and microfiltration (MF) membranes has been increased for drinking water purification. The advantages of UF/MF membrane process compared to conventional treatment processes are stable operation under varying feed water quality, smaller construction area, and automatic operation. Most membrane treatment plants are designed with polymeric membranes. Recently, some studies suggested that the process of treating surface water with ceramic membranes is competitive to the application of polymeric membranes. Higher water flux, less frequent cleaning, and much longer lifetime are the advantages of ceramic membrane comparing to polymeric membrane. Therefore, this research focused on the application of ceramic MF membrane pilot plant at the slow sand filtration plant. The ceramic membrane pilot plant has three trains that used raw water and sand filtered water as a feed water, respectively. For optimizing the pilot plant process, the coagulation with PACl coagulant was used as a pretreatment of ceramic membrane process. In addition, CEB (Chemical Enhanced Backwash) process using $H_2SO_4$ and NaOCl was used for 1.5 days, respectively. The experimental results showed that applying the optimum coagulant dose before membrane filtration showed enhancing membrane fluxes for both raw water and sand filtered water. Also, when using raw water as a feed of membrane, minimum fouling rate was 2.173 kPa/cycle with 25 mg/L of PACl and when using sand filtered water, the minimum fouling rate was 0.301 kPa/cycle with 5 mg/L of PACl.
Keywords
Ceramic Membrane; Microfiltration; Membrane Fouling; Coagulation; Slow Sand Filtration;
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