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Optimum Chemical Cleaning Conditions for Ceramic Microfiltration Membrane Process  

Lim, Jae-Lim (Water Research Center, K-water Institute)
Lee, Kyung-Hyuk (Water Research Center, K-water Institute)
Lee, Young-Joo (Water Research Center, K-water Institute)
Park, Jong-Yul (Metawater Seoul Office)
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Membrane Journal / v.22, no.6, 2012 , pp. 461-469 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study was carried out to find the optimum chemical cleaning (CIP) conditions for ceramic microfiltration membrane process of Y drinking water treatment plant. B train consists of coagulation as pretreatment process with membrane was chemically cleaned 9 times more than that of A train with ozonation and coagulation. The frequent CIP of B train was due to improper CIP method suggested by membrane manufacture as well as different membrane fouling between A and B train resulting from the different pretreatment processes. That is, recovery rate of CIP was overestimated because the rate was calculated based on normalized trans membrane pressure (TMP) rather than normalized permeability. And also, iron oxide fouling was ineffectively removed by citric acid. By using a mixture of 1% citric acid and 0.1 N sulfuric acid as reagent for acid CIP step, the recovery rate of CIP was the highest while CIP efficiency by 0.1 N sulfuric acid was the lowest. When sulfuric acid concentration increased from 0.1 N to 0.3 N in mixture, total recovery rate of CIP was not increased due to the decreased CIP efficiency in alkali CIP step by 0.3% NaOCl although its rate in acid CIP step was increased. It was proved through the experiment result of CIP sequence changes that an acid followed by alkali CIP was more effective than that of the reverse method.
Keywords
ceramic membrane; TMP; chemical cleaning (CIP); citric acid; sulfuric acid;
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