• Membrane Journal
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.52-61
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• 2005

Permeate flux decline in a microfiltration was analyzed by measuring the permeability of bentonite colloidal solution through polyethylene capillary membranes. The flux decline with time was due to the growth of cake layer on the membrane surface and to the pore blocking by particles. As the time approaches to steady state, the permeate flux is almost controlled by the cake filtration model. Faster flux decline at high trans-membrane pressure was attributed to the formation of denser packed cake layer and pore blocking. The ratio of permeate flux to the initial permeate flux, J/J₁, decreased with increasing the trans-membrane pressure, from 45% for 0.5 kg/sub f//㎠ to 38% for 2.0 kg/sub f//㎠. In comparing the ratio of each fouling component to the total fouling for the 0.5 kg/sub f//㎠ TMP condition, complete blocking was 23.4%, standard blocking was about 14.6% and cake filtration was 62.0%, respectively. Permeate flux through the membrane increases with cross flow velocity, and the effect of the variation of velocity is more significant at 1.0 kg/sub f//㎠ rather than at 2.0 kg/sub f//㎠ of the operation pressure. Permeate flux for the membrane having the average pore diameter of 0.34 ㎛ was higher than that for the membrane of 0.24 ㎛ pore size, with the higher flux with the low concentration of feed. On the operation using the membrane of 0.34 ㎛ pore, the pore blocking in the low concentration of 200 ppm is negligible relative to the pore blocking in the 1000 ppm feed.

• Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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• v.36 no.4
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• pp.251-257
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• 2014

This research is focused on coagulation and sand filtration process as a pretreatment of RO seawater desalination. RO systems require sufficient and reliable pretreatment process to produce superior quality of RO feedwater that can mitigate RO membrane fouling. This experiment was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of coagulation and filtration process under various experimental conditions including different coagulant dose, flocculation mixing intensity and time, turbidity, and filtration rate. The experimental results showed that the optimum pretreatment conditions resulting in lower SDI value suitable for RO feedwater were coagulation pH 6.5, raw water turbidity greater than 4 NTU, and media bed depth greater than 550 mm. However, flocculation mixing intensity, coagulant dose, and filtration rate relatively affected little on the filtration efficiency.

• Proceedings of the Membrane Society of Korea Conference
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• 1994.04a
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• pp.34-35
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• 1994

Tube-in-orifice형태의 spinneret을 제작하여, polyethersulfone을 재질로 하는 capillary membrane을 건습식방사공정을 통해 제조하였다. 기공형성계는 PVP를, 용매는 NMP/DCM을, 내부응고제는 물과 NMP의 혼합물을, 외부응고제는 냉각수를 사용하였다. 내부응고제의 NMP농도에 따른 막의 형태와 microstructure를 연구하였다. 내부응고제가 약한 응고력을 가질 때 macrovoid가 없고, 내부의 활성층이 치밀한 막을 얻을 수 있었다. PES-NMP/DCM-PVP조성(25-44/11-20)의 용액으로, 40% NMP수용액을 내부응고제로 사용하여, 막을 제조하고 이를 모듈화하여, 한외여과실험을 한 결과, MWCO 8,000인 모듈이 얻어졌으며, 이 모듈의 Flux는 1기압에서 $1.44 \times 10^{-5}m/sec$이었다.

• Proceedings of the Membrane Society of Korea Conference
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• 1994.10a
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• pp.58-60
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• 1994

막 모듈의 종류에는 평판형(Plate and Frarne), 나권형(Spiral Wound), 중공사형(Hollow Fiber), 관형(Tubular) 등이 있다. 이 중에서 관형 모듈은 공업적 스케일의 한외여과 장치로써 그 특징은 공급액 유로가 일반적으로 커서 전처리를 행하지 않고도 막히는 것이 적으며, 또한 막 표면의 세정이 약품에 의한 것 이외에 스폰지 볼 등에 의한 물리적 세정이 가능한 것이 있으므로 공업용이나 폐액처리 등에 적용할 수 있다는 것이다.

• Proceedings of the Membrane Society of Korea Conference
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• 1991.04a
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• pp.19-22
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• 1991

생물 반응기내에 미생물 농도를 높이기 위한 한 방법으로써 막을 이용한 미생물 재순환에 대한 연구가 이루어져 왔다. 이러한 연구들은 발효조 밖에서 막을 이용하여 미생물을 분리하여 다시 발효조 내로 순환시키는 방법이 주를 이루었으나 이들은 공정이 복잡하고 고분자 합성막을 이용한 경우 고온 멸균의 어려움 등 산업화하는데 여러가지 문제점을 가지고 있었다.

• Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.12-18
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• 1999

This research was undertaken to do the technical and economical feasibility study of membrane water treatment system. For the technical feasibility study, batch water treatment system using UF(ultrafiltration) was set up and several experiments were carried out. The performance of the UF membrane was tested in terms of turbidity. The experimental results showed that the UF membrane process produced less than 1 NTU water regardless of input water turbidity. For the economical feasibility study, the cost model was analyzed and programmed for simulation. Also costs of the membrane water treatment and the conventional treatment were evaluated. The simulation results showed that the unit production cost increased when design flow or permeate flow decreased. The production cost of membrane water treatment system was lower than that of the conventional system. Both technical and economical feasibility study showed that the UF membrane water purification system was a very competitive water purification process.

• Membrane Journal
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.252-260
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• 2009

The effects of the treatment of an acidic solution at pH 2 on polyacrylonitrile ultrafiltration (UF) membranes were investigated using a circular cross-flow filtration bench with a membrane module. A substantial reduction in the membrane permeability was observed after 80 hours' treatment of the acidic solution. In addition, the analyses of the sample solutions by ultraviolet/visible absorption spectroscopy and gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS), which were taken from the feed tank as a function of the treatment time, showed that a new organic compound was produced in the course of the treatment. From a thorough search of the mass spectral library we presumed the new compound to be 1,6-dioxacyclododecane-7,12-dione (DCD), one of the well-known additives for polyurethane. Based on further experimental results, including the scanning electron microscope (SEM) images and the solid-state NMR spectra of the membranes used for the treatment of the acidic solution, we suggested that the decrease of the permeate flux resulted not from the deformation of the membranes, but from the fouling by DCD eluted from the polyurethane tubes in the filtration bench during the treatment. Those results imply that the reactivity to an acidic solution of the parts comprising the filtration bench is as important as that of the membranes themselves for effective treatments of acidic solutions, for efficient chemical cleaning by strong acids, and also in determining the pH limit of the solutions that can be treated by the membranes.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.46 no.3
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• pp.639-645
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• 2008

The objectives of this research are to (1) observe changes in particle size distribution due to formation of microflocs during coagulation process (2) identify the membrane fouling potential on cross flow system (3) investigate the mechanism of membrane fouling. The rate of flux decline for the hydrophobic membrane was significantly greater than for the hydrophilic membrane, regardless of pretreatment conditions. The pretreatment of the raw water significantly reduced the fouling of the UF membrane. Also, the rate of flux decline for the hydrophobic membrane was considerably greater than for the hydrophilic membrane. Applying coagulation process before membrane filtration showed not only reducing membrane fouling, but also improving the removal of dissolved organic materials that might otherwise not be removed by the membrane. That is, during the mixing period, substantial changes in particle size distribution occurred under rapid and slow mixing condition due to the simultaneous formation of microflocs and NOM precipitates. Therefore, combined pretreatment using coagulation not only improved dissolved organics removal efficiency but also flux recovery efficiency.

• Membrane Journal
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.65-73
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• 1995

Gore-Tex Membrane은 Ptfe(Polytetra Fluoroetylene)를 특수가공하여 극히 미세한 구조를 가지는 연속다공질체로 만들어 습건식용 산업용 여과재로 활용함으로써 그동안 사용되어 오던 종래의 심층여과방식의 여과포로서는 도저히 이룰 수 없었던 표면여과 기능을 갖춤에 따라 높은 집진효율이나 낮은 악력손실로 동시에 운전을 가능하게 한 새로운 첨단여과포로써 각종 산업분야에 이미 널리 적용되고 있다. 근래 Boiler, 소각로, 제철, 제강용로 등의 고온용 Bag Filter 소요가 증가됨에 따라 보다 효율적이고 경제적인 고온용 여과포에 대한 관심이 높아지고 있으며, 특히 소각로, 발전설비, Cement 생산공정 중 Kilin 공정 등에 주로 사용되어오던 전기 집진기 (Electrostatic Precipitator)의 집진효율이 Dioxine이나 Furan 등의 새로운 규제와 중금속, 혹은 분진들에 대해 강화되는 환경 규제치에 적응하기 어려워짐에 따라 Bag Filter로의 전환, 개선방안이 많이 연구되고 있으며 이미 활용되어지는 부분도 있는 바 이에 대한 새로운 적용방법 등을 소개하고자 한다.

• Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.717-725
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• 2002

A bench-scale submerged-type membrane filtration system (SMFS) was constructed to study a feasibility of membrane filtration for solid-liquid separation in water and wastewater treatment processes. In the case of applying the SMFS to a biological wastewater treatment process, so-called membrane bioreactor, aeration underneath membrane modules is usually employed in order to provide oxygen demand for microbial growth as well as to control membrane fouling. A study was investigated the effects of operation parameters by aeration intensity, feed concentration, foulant type and airlift pore size on critical flux. Critical flux tends to increase with aeration rate. Optimal aeration flow rate was found to be 10 L/min/module. Feed concentration and foulant type has a significant effect on membrane fouling and filtration performance. But downward position and pore size of airlift has no a significant effects on membrane fouling and filtration performance.