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http://dx.doi.org/10.14481/jkges.2015.16.4.13

Effects of Fouling and Scaling on the Retention of Explosives in Surface Water by NF-the Role of Cake Enhanced Concentration Polarisation  

Heo, Jiyong (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Korea Army Academy at Yeong-Cheon)
Han, Jonghun (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Korea Army Academy at Yeong-Cheon)
Lee, Heebum (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Korea Army Academy at Yeong-Cheon)
Lee, Jongyeol (Beautiful Environmental Construction Co.)
Her, Namguk (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Korea Army Academy at Yeong-Cheon)
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Journal of the Korean GEO-environmental Society / v.16, no.4, 2015 , pp. 13-22 More about this Journal
Abstract
The combined impact of Dissolved Organic Matter (DOM) fouling and inorganic ($CaSO_4,Ca_3(PO_4)_2$) scaling on the retention of TNT (2, 4, 6-Trinitrotoluene), RDX (Hexahydro-1, 3, 5-trinitro-1, 3, 5-triazine) and HMX (1, 3, 5, 7-Tetranitro-1, 3, 5, 7-tetrazocane) explosive contaminants by nano-filtration membrane were studied, since organic fouling and salt scaling are the major limitations for membrane filtration. Results reported here indicate that DOM fouling layer with a humic acid does not necessarily lead to an immediate loss of permeate flux but can result in a severe impact on the flux loss when both humic acid and inorganic scaltants were presented simultaneously. The $Ca_3(PO_4)_2$ mixed with humic acid showd most sever flux loss (42%) compared to that of only humic acid presence (8%). It could be a result that the scaling formation of the NF membrane was dominated by cake layer formation of DOM and it was along with pore blocking by the formation of crystals inside the porous active matrix of the NF membrane. In addition, these results indicated that the membrane selectivity of the explosives retention trended correlated with respect to increasing explosives size (listed by MW) based on greater steric interactions and followed the order (MW, g $mol^{-1}$; removal, %): HMX (296.15; 83%) ${\gg}$ RDX (222.12; 49%) ≋ TNT (227.13; 32%). Because the scaling and fouling layer could lead to a additional cake-enhanced concentration polarisation effect, the retention of explosives with the presence of humic acid in the feed solution and inorganic scaling formation on top of an organic fouling layer do not differ substantially retention from that of pure DI feed and NaCl solution.
Keywords
Nano-filtration membrane; Scaling; Fouling; Explosives; Humic acid;
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