β-SiAlON ceramic membranes modified with SiO2 nanoparticles with high rejection rate in oil-water emulsion separation |
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Authors: | Dong-Shuai Zhang Hamidreza Abadikhah Jun-Wei Wang Lu-Yuan Hao Xin Xu Simeon Agathopoulos |
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Affiliation: | 1. CAS Key Laboratory of Materials for Energy Conversion, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, PR China;2. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Ioannina, GR-451 10 Ioannina, Greece |
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Abstract: | Porous ceramic membranes with high mechanical strength are suitable for oil-water emulsion separation. Nonetheless, it is difficult to prepare ceramic membranes with a small pore size and a good antifouling ability. In this work, SiO2 nanoparticles were used to modify β-SiAlON ceramic membranes, which were successfully utilized to remove small oil droplets from oil-water emulsion. The modified membranes displayed a narrow pore size (the average pore size decreased from 1.05?µm, in the unmodified membrane, to 0.65?µm), and gas and water fluxes which are suitable for oil-water separation. Oil rejection rate was always higher than 90% under various pressures (1.0–2.0?bar) and flow velocities (1.0?3.0?L?min?1) tested, which is considerably higher (60%) than the rejection rate of the unmodified membrane (which was 39.8%). Moreover, the modified membranes exhibited a good antifouling ability, since flux declined by only 7.0% after three recoveries via a simple ultrasonic treatment, over a total running period of 10?h. Accordingly, the produced membranes can be qualified for further consideration in oily wastewater treatment. |
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Keywords: | Oil-water separation Ceramic membrane β-SiAlON High rejection Surface modification |
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