• Membrane and Water Treatment
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.25-34
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• 2012

Carboxylated polysulfone (CPS), poly (1,4-phenylene ether ethersulfone) (PPEES), membranes were prepared and used for the separation of NaCl and $CaCl_2$, in efficient way with less energy consumption. In this work, nanofiltration and reverse osmosis membranes were employed to the salt rejection behavior of the different salt solutions. The influence of applied pressure (1-12 bar), on the membrane performance was assessed. In CM series of membranes, $CM_1$ showed maximum of 97% water uptake and 36% water swelling, whereas, $CM_4$ showed 75% water uptake and 28% water swelling. In RCM series, $RCM_1$ showed 85% water uptake and 32% water swelling whereas, in $RCM_4$ it was 68% for water uptake and 20% for water swelling. Conclusively reverse osmosis membranes gave better rejection whereas nanofiltration membrane showed enhanced flux. CM1 showed 58% of rejection with 12 L/($m^2$ h) flux and $RCM_1$ showed 55% of rejection with 15 L/($m^2$ h) flux for 0.1 wt.% NaCl solution. Whereas, in 0.1 wt.% $CaCl_2$ solution, membrane $CM_1$ showed 78% of rejection with 12 L/($m^2$ h) flux and $RCM_1$ showed 63% rejection with flux of 9 L/($m^2$ h).

• Proceedings of the Korean Fiber Society Conference
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• 1998.04a
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• pp.354-359
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• 1998

본 연구에서는 분획분자량이 RO막과 UF막 사이에 있는 NF막(Nanofiltration Membrane) 의 특성을 이용하여 앞서의 기초연구$^{1)}$ 를 바탕으로 현장적용을 위한 소현장규모의 실험을 수회 진행하여 실제로 NF막 공정기술의 현장실용화를 위해 검토되어야 할 사항 및 운전시간에 따른 막투과량 거동의 변화 및 온도의존성 등을 검토하였고, 이와 병행하여 염색공장, 염색공단조합, 폐알칼리 수거회사와의 면담을 통하여 머어서 공정 및 머어서 폐수 관련 현황을 조사하여 이를 토대로 분리막 공정의 경제성에 주요 역할을 하는 고농도 가성소다 폐수 수집을 위한 수세방법을 소개하였고 본 기술의 국내 실용화를 위한 문제점 파악 및 현 상황에서의 실용화 최적 방안을 제안하여 보았다.(중략)

• Membrane Journal
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.1-20
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• 2018

Fresh water is an important resource for humans, and pressure-driven membrane technology has been widely known as an energy-efficient method to obtain water resource. However, membrane fouling phenomenon, which is one of the major issue during operation, deteriorates membrane permeability. These fouling is usually affected by interaction between surface of membrane and various foulants, therefore, modification of membrane's surface is one of the methods to improve fouling-resistance. This review focuses on the method to modify surface of pressure-driven membranes such as microfiltration (MF), ultrafiltration (UF), nanofiltration (NF), and reverse osmosis (RO). Specifically, there are two different surface modification methods: (1) adsorption and coating as the physical modification methods, (2) cross-linker, free radical polymerization (FRP), atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP), plasma/UV-induced polymerization as the chemical modification methods. This review introduces the physico - chemical surface modification methods reported in recent papers and suggests research directions for membrane separation which can increase membrane fouling resistance.