Back Flushing Behavior of Microfiltration Membrane Fouled by Alumna Colloidal Suspensions

Effect of backflushing on the membrane fouling for polyethylene capillary membranes was examined by measuring the flux of $Al_2O_3$ colloidal suspensions through the cross flow microfiltration. In the comparison of with and without the application of backflushing, the hydraulic resistance to permeate flow of the suspension was less with backfluslng, but the Increasing rate in permeate resistance was higher. Regardless of backflushing, the cake filtration was dominant at the initial period of filtration with backflushing, being followed by the pore blocking. And at steady state, the fouling mechanism is almost governed by the cake filtration model. On the contrary, the pore blocking preceded the cake filtration in the initial stage of the original membrane before backflushing. And irrespective of backflushing, the ratio of cake filtration to total fouling increased, compared with that fur before backflushing. For the membrane with $0.24{\mu}m$ pore size, the permeate resistance was higher than that of $0.34{\mu}m$ pore size membrane. but the ratio of cake filtration was smaller than that of large pore membrane. In comparing the ratio of each fouling component to the total fouling for the case with backflushing pore blocking was 7.8% and cake filtration was 92.2%. for the case without backflushing, total fouling was composed of 9.6% pore blocking and 90.4% cake filtration.

알루미나 현탁액에 의해 오염된 정밀여과막의 역세척 거동

$Al_2O_3$ 현탁액의 폴리에틸렌 정밀여과에 있어 역세척이 막오염에 미치는 영향에 대하여 분석하였다. 현탁액의 투과저항은 역세척을 한 경우가 역세척을 하지 않은 경우보다 작았으나 투과저항 증가율은 역세척을 하지 않은 때보다도 더 컸다. 막오염 형태는 역세척을 한 경우나 하지 않은 경우 운전초기에는 케익오염이 지배적이었으며, 이어 세공막힘오염이 나타났고, 정상상태에 도달하면 투과유속은 다시 케익여과 오염에 의해 지배받는 것으로 나타났다. 한편, 세척공정에 앞선 막은 운전초기에 세공막힘오염이 케익오염에 앞서 일어났다. 총오염에 대한 케익여과 오염의 비율은 역세척에 관계없이 역세척 전에 비하여 증가하였다. 세공크기가 $0.24{\mu}m$인 막의 투과저항은 세공이 $0.34{\mu}m$인 막에 비해 더 컸으나, 막오염 형태는 세공의 크기가 $0.34{\mu}m$인 막에 비해 케익오염이 작았다. 총오염에 대한 성분오염의 비율은 역세척을 한 경우에는 세공막힘이 약 7.8%, 케익오염 약 92.2%이었고, 역세척을 하지 않은 경우에는 세공막힘은 9.6% 그리고 케익오염이 90.4%이었다.