• 한국물환경학회지
• /
• 제22권5호
• /
• pp.926-932
• /
• 2006

A series of bench-scale membrane filtration experiments were performed to systematically investigate the removal mechanisms of reverse osmosis (RO) and nanofiltration (NF) membranes for BTEX (benzene, toluene, ethylene, xylene), trichloroethylene (TCE) and tetrachloroethylene (PCE). The molecular weight of these organic compounds ranged from 78 to 166 dalton. The rejection of organic compounds by RO/NF membranes varied significantly from 59.6 to 99.2% depending on solute and membrane types. Specifically, experimental results demonstrated that the removal efficiency of RO/NF membranes increased as solute molecular characteristics such as W/L (molecular width/length) ${\times}$ $M_W$ (molecular weight) and octanol-water partition coefficient increased. This observation suggested that the rejection of small organic compounds by RO/NF membranes was determined by the combined effect of physical (molecular size and shape) and chemical (hydrophobicity) properties.

• 멤브레인
• /
• 제16권3호
• /
• pp.213-220
• /
• 2006

본 연구에서는 정밀여과 및 나노여과 분리막 시스템을 활용하여 염료 제조 시 필요한 탈염/정제/농축처리 기술을 개발하고 그에 따른 염료의 품질과 품질의 안정성을 향상시키며, 기존공정의 단수를 축소하여 생산성 향상, 인력저감 및 원재료의 비용을 감소하고자 하였다. 염료의 탈염/정제/농축처리시 염료의 다양한 농도에 적합한 분리막의 제조 및 가압식 막 element를 제작하고, 가압식 분리막 시스템에 맞는 막 모듈의 설계와 pilot-scale 시스템을 통해 염료의 처리수질 분석 및 운전인자를 도출하였다.

• 한국물환경학회지
• /
• 제28권5호
• /
• pp.657-662
• /
• 2012

This study was carried out to evaluate the removal rate of organic and inorganic matters from landfill leachate using pre-treatment process as coagulation and limonite adsorption, and membrane process as RO (reverse osmosis) and NF(nanofiltration). By adding limonite adsorption as pre-treatment process, about 40% of organic matters in leachate was removed through pre-treatment process and 74.7% of boron was removed after RO process without pH adjustment. The rejection rate of boron in RO process mainly depends on the pH and increased at pH value of 10. RO process was performed as two stage system adjusting pH condtion to 7 and 10 in second RO stage for boron removal. Most (>90%) of TOC, Cl- and inorganic matters as Ca was rejected in first RO stage, the residue was rejected in second RO and the rejection rate was above 97%. Considering economic efficiency of operation cost, NF substituted for the first RO and total removal rate of TOC was above 90%. Through RO system toxicity to Daphnia in leachate was removed completely.

• Membrane and Water Treatment
• /
• 제11권5호
• /
• pp.333-344
• /
• 2020

Advances in industrial development and waste management over several decades have reduced many of the impacts that previously affected ecosystems, however, there are still processes which discharge hazardous materials into environments. Among industries that produce industrial wastewaters, textile manufacturing processes play a noticeable role. This study was conducted to test a novel continuous combined commercial membrane treatment using polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF), ultrafiltration (UF), and polyamide (PA) nanofiltration (NF) membranes for textile wastewater treatment. The synthetic textile wastewater used in this study contained sodium silicate, wax, and five various reactive dyes. The results indicate that the removal efficiency for physical particles (wax and resin) was 95% through the UF membrane under optimum conditions. Applying UF and NF hybrid treatment resulted in total effective removal of dye from all synthetic samples. The efficiency of sodium silicate removal was measured to be between 2.5 to 4.5% and 13 to 16% for UF and NF, respectively. The chemical oxygen demand in all samples was reduced by more than 85% after treatment by NF.

• Membrane and Water Treatment
• /
• 제7권3호
• /
• pp.193-207
• /
• 2016

Boron is one of the most problematic inorganic pollutants and is difficult to remove in water. Strict standards have been imposed for boron content in water because of their high toxicity at high concentrations. Technologies using membrane processes such as reverse osmosis (RO) and nanofiltration (NF) have increasingly been employed in many industrial sectors. In this work, removal of boron from model water solutions was investigated using polyamide reverse osmosis and nanofiltration membranes. RO-AG, RO-SG, NF-90 and NF-HL membranes were used to reduce the boron from model water at different operational conditions. To understand the boron separation properties a characterization of the four membranes was performed by determining the pure water permeability, surface charge and molecular weight cut-off. Thereafter, the effect of feed pressure, concentration, ionic strength, nature of ions in solution and pH on the rejection of boron were studied. The rejection of boron can reach up to 90% for the three membranes AG, SG and NF-90 at pH = 11. The Spiegler-Kedem model was applied to experimental results to determine the reflection coefficient of the membrane ${\sigma}$ and the solute permeability $P_s$.

• 멤브레인
• /
• 제7권2호
• /
• pp.95-109
• /
• 1997

Active layer의 형성법에 따른 첫번째 모듈 set와 두번째 모듈 set 사이의 성능변화가 축방향 속도와 용질 농도변화를 통하여 각 모듈 set별로 비교, 고찰되었다. 모든 실험들은 같은 transmembrane pressure와 막면적당 에너지 소모하에서 동시에 수행되었다. 첫번째 모듈 set에 대해서 Dean vortices가 존재하는 나선형 모듈과 Dean vortices가 없는 선형모듈로 수행된 모든 비교 실험에서 용질 flux와 투과계수는 vortex flow의 경우 훨씬 큰 값을 보였다. 두번째 모듈 set에 대해서 순수에 대한 두 모듈의 투과계수는 다른 값을 보이고 있으며 선형 모듈의 투과계수가 나선형 모듈에 비해 약 150% 높은 것으로 나타났다. 이는 두 모듈의 막이 완전히 달라졌음을 보여준다.

• Food Science and Biotechnology
• /
• 제14권3호
• /
• pp.380-386
• /
• 2005

Optimal conditions of ultrafiltration (UF) and nanofiltration (NF) were investigated for separation and concentration of isoflavones and oligosaccharides from Sunmul. Levels of COD, BOD, and suspended solids (SS) in UF and NF permeates were also determined to evaluate effectiveness of these processes for reducing water pollution. Optimal UF operation conditions to achieve minimal fouling and maximal flux were $33-34^{\circ}C$ operating temperature and 2.3-2.4 bar trans-membrane pressure. Recovery yields of isoflavones and oligosaccharides in UF retentate were 11.49-28.16% and 12.77-27.57%, respectively. Increase in volumetric concentration factor (VCF) resulted in more functional compounds of isoflavones and oligosaccharides passing through UF membrane. Total isoflavone and oligosaccharide yields decreased by 3% as VCF increased from 6.0 to 8.0 and from 8.0 to 10.0, while decreased significantly by 10% as VCF decreased from 4.0 to 6.0. Optimal NF operating conditions were 192-195 psig operating pressure at $30-33^{\circ}C$. Total yields of isoflavones and oligosaccharides significantly decreased at VCF 8.0, whereas did not decrease up to VCF 6.0 during NF operation. Therefore, VCF 6.0 was recommended for economical process. COD and BOD decreased by more than 98% after NF process, and SS were not detected after UF process. These results indicated sequential filtration process was useful for separation of isoflavones and oligosaccharides from Sunmul and for reducing water contaminants.

• 상하수도학회지
• /
• 제28권4호
• /
• pp.397-409
• /
• 2014

Algal problem in drinking water treatment is being gradually increased by causing deterioration of water supplies therefore, especially taste and odor compounds such as geosmin and 2-MIB occur mainly aesthetic problem by its unpleasant effects resulting in the subsequent onset of complaints from drinking water consumer. Recently, geosmin and 2-MIB are detected frequently at abnormally high concentration level. However, conventional water treatment without advanced water treatment processes such as adsorption and oxidation process, cannot remove these two compounds efficiently. Moreover, it is known that the advanced treatment processes i.e. adsorption and oxidation have also several limits to the removal of geosmin and 2-MIB. Therefore, the purpose of this study was not only to evaluate full scale nanofiltration membrane system with $300m^3/day$ of permeate capacity and 90% of recovery on the removal of geosmin and 2-MIB in spiked natural raw water sources at high feed concentration with a range of approximately 500 to 2,500 ng/L, but also to observe rejection property of the compounds within multi stage NF membrane system. Rejection rate of geosmin and 2-MIB by NF membrane process was 96% that is 4% of passage regardless of the feed water concentration which indicates NF membrane system with an operational values suggested in this research can be employed in drinking water treatment plant to control geosmin and 2-MIB of high concentration. But, according to results of regression analysis in this study it is recommended that feed water concentration of geosmin and 2-MIB would not exceed 220 and 300 ng/L respectively which is not to be perceived in drinking tap water. Also it suggests that the removal rate might be depended on an operating conditions such as feed water characteristics and membrane flux. When each stage of NF membrane system was evaluated relatively higher removal rate was observed at the conditions that is lower flux, higher DOC and TDS, i.e., $2^{nd}$ stage NF membrane systems, possibly due to an interaction mechanisms between compounds and cake layer on the membrane surfaces.

• 멤브레인
• /
• 제18권2호
• /
• pp.185-190
• /
• 2008

선행 연구에서 poly(styrene sulfonate) (PSS)/poly(diallyldimethylammonium chloride) (PDADMAC) 나노 여과막을 사용하여 불소 이온을 포함한 1가 이온 혼합물을 분리하는 것이 가능함을 보였다. 예를 들면, 다공성 알루미나 지지체에 $(PSS/PBADMAC)_4PSS$ 필름을 코팅한 경우 염소/불소 이온의 선택도가 3 이상이었으며 4.8 bar에서 용액의 플럭스가 $3.5m^3/m^2$-day이었다. 그러나, PSS/PDADMAC 이층의 수가 4.5에서 5.5.로 증가하면 염소/불소 이온의 선택도가 1.9로 떨어졌으며, $(PSS/PDADMAC)_6PSS$ 필름의 경우에는 염소 이온의 배제율이 급속히 증가하면서 선택도가 1에 가까웠다. 이러한 선택도의 감소 현상은 예상치 못한 것으로서 다른 지지체를 사용하여도 같은 경향을 보이는지 여부는 불분명하였다. 따라서, 본 연구에서는 다공성 알루미나 대신에 분획 분자량이 50kDa인 다공성 polyethersulfone (PES)에 PSS/PDADMAC을 적층하고 불소/염소 이온 혼합물의 나노 여과 특성을 살펴보았다. 그 결과 다공성 알루미나의 경우와 비록 적층 수는 달랐으나 불소 이온의 배제율이 최대가 되는 최적 적층수가 존재하였으며 이로부터 이러한 현상이 지지체에 무관한 일반적인 사실임을 알 수 있었다.

• Environmental Engineering Research
• /
• 제22권3호
• /
• pp.329-338
• /
• 2017

Nanofiltration (NF) technology is a membrane-based separation process, which has been pervasively used as the high-effective technology for drinking water treatment. In this study, a kind of composite polyamide NF thin film is selected to investigate the removal efficiencies and mechanisms of 14 trace drugs, which are commonly and frequently detected in the drinking water. The results show that the removal efficiencies of most drugs are quite high, indicating the NF is an effective technology to improve the quality of drinking water. The removal efficiencies of carbamazepine, acetaminophen, estradiol, antipyrine and isopropyl-antipyrine in ultrapure water are $78.8{\pm}0.8%$, $16.4{\pm}0.5%$, $65.4{\pm}1.8%$, $71.1{\pm}1.5%$ and $89.8{\pm}0.38%$, respectively. Their rejection rates increase with the increasing of their three-dimensional sizes, which indicates that the steric exclusion plays a significant role in removal of these five drugs. The adsorption of estradiol with the strongest hydrophobicity has been studied, which indicates that adsorption is not negligible in terms of removing this kind of hydrophobic neutral drugs by NF technology. The removal efficiencies of indomethacin, diclofenac, naproxen, ketoprofen, ibuprofen, clofibric acid, sulfamethoxazole, amoxicillin and bezafibrate in ultrapure water are $81{\pm}0.3%$, $86.3{\pm}0.5%$, $85.7{\pm}0.4%$, $93.3{\pm}0.3%$, $86.6{\pm}2.5%$, $90.6{\pm}0.4%$, $59.7{\pm}1.7%$, $80.3{\pm}1.4%$ and $80{\pm}0.5%$, respectively. For these nine drugs, their rejection rates are better than the above five drugs because they are negatively charged in ultrapure water. Meanwhile, the membrane surface presents the negative charge. Therefore, both electrostatic repulsion and steric exclusion are indispensable in removing these negatively charged drugs. This study provides helpful and scientific support of a highly effective water treatment method for removing drugs pollutants from drinking water.