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http://dx.doi.org/10.9713/kcer.2013.51.1.98

Characteristic of Water Pervaporation Using Hydrophilic Composite Membrane Containing Functional Nano Sized NaA zeolites  

Oh, Duckkyu (Department of Chem. Eng., College of Eng., Chungnam National University)
Lee, Yongtaek (Department of Chem. Eng., College of Eng., Chungnam National University)
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Korean Chemical Engineering Research / v.51, no.1, 2013 , pp. 98-105 More about this Journal
Abstract
The NaA zeolite particles were dispersed in a poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) matrix to prepare a composite membrane. The nano sized zeolite particles of NaA were synthesized in the laboratory and the mean size was approximately 60 nm. Pervaporation characteristics such as a permeation flux and a separation factor were investigated using the membrane as a function of the feed concentration from 0.01 to 0.05 mole fraction and the weight % of NaA particles between 0 wt% and 5 wt% in the membrane. Also, the micro sized particles of $5{\mu}m$ were dispersed in the membrane for a comparison purpose. When the ethanol concentration in the feed solution was 0.01 mole fraction, the flux of water significantly increased from $600g/m^2/hr$ to $2000g/m^2/hr$ as the content of the nano NaA particles in the membrane increased from 0 wt% to 5 wt%, while the NaA particles improved the separation factor from 1.5 to 7.9. When the flux of water through the membrane containing nano sized particles was roughly 15% increased compared to the micro sized particles, whereas the separation factor of water was found to be approximately 5% increased. It can be said that the role of the nano sized NaA particles is quite important since both the flux and the separation factor are strongly affected.
Keywords
Pervaporation; Ethanol; Composite Membrane; Nano NaA Zeolite;
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