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Anti-fouling characteristic of carbon nanotubes hollow fiber membranes by filtering natural organic pollutants

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Membrane fouling is a universal problem for conventional membrane filtration that usually causes a deterioration in membrane performance. We used electro-assisted carbon nanotubes hollow fiber membranes (CNTs-HFMs) to investigate the anti-fouling properties using natural organic pollutants. Benefiting from the electro-assistance, the permeation flux of humic acid solution using CNTs-HFMs was 190.20 L/(m2·h·bar), which was about 1.5- and 4.4-times higher than those of CNTs-HFMs without electro-assistance and traditional polyvinylidene fluoride hollow-fiber membranes (PVDF-HFMs). And the permeation fluxes of bovine serum albumin, sodium alginate and supernatant of anaerobic bioreactor also presented similar results. The average COD removal rate of CNTs-HFMs (66.8%) at −1.0 V was higher than that of CNTs-HFMs without electro-assistance and PVDF-HFMs, which can be attributed to the formation of electrostatic repulsive force. It could reduce the deposition of pollutants on membrane surface under electroassistance.

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    Yue Yang, Sen Qiao, Ruofei Jin, Jiti Zhou & Xie Quan

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Yang, Y., Qiao, S., Jin, R. et al. Anti-fouling characteristic of carbon nanotubes hollow fiber membranes by filtering natural organic pollutants. Korean J. Chem. Eng. 35, 964–973 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11814-017-0354-0

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