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Treatment of Typical Organic Pollutants in Textile Wastewater by Direct Contact Membrane Distillation

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Direct contact membrane distillation technology was considered as a promising and efficient technology for the treatment of textile wastewater. In this study, hydrophobic polytetrafluoroethylene and polyvinylidene fluoride membranes for the treatment of selected model compounds of textile wastewater (e.g., phenol, aniline, and sulfanilic acid) were explored comparatively in a bench-scale direct contact membrane distillation technology test unit. The effect of various operational parameters including temperature, flow rate, and concentration on the rejection performance was investigated systematically. The results indicated that an increased feed temperature and a faster cross flow velocity contributed positively to the direct contact membrane distillation performance. Limited rejection for phenol and aniline was witnessed, which can be due to their relatively lower boiling point. A > 99% of sulfanilic acid rejection was obtained under the same conditions. Furthermore, the polytetrafluoroethylene membrane always presented enhanced performance compared with the polyvinylidene fluoride samples. In brief, the direct contact membrane distillation process could be potentially used as a promising technique for the treatment of textile wastewater.

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Acknowledgments

This work is supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2016YFC0400501) and the Start-up Grant of Donghua University (Grant No. 113-07-005710), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51478099). A previous shorter version of the paper has been presented in the 10th World Congress of EWRA “Panta Rei” Athens, Greece, 5-9 July 2017.

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  1. School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Donghua University, Shanghai, 201620, China

    Muyao Ji, Qin Xia, Hongteng Chen, Qianxun Cheng, Yanbiao Liu & Fang Li

  2. Textile Pollution Controlling Engineering Center of Ministry of Environmental Protection, Shanghai, 201620, China

    Yanbiao Liu & Fang Li

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1. High feed temperature and flow rate had a positive correlation to the permeate flux.

2. PTFE membrane obtained better performance than the PVDF membrane.

3. High hydrophobicity prevents the feed solution steam into membrane pores.

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Ji, M., Xia, Q., Chen, H. et al. Treatment of Typical Organic Pollutants in Textile Wastewater by Direct Contact Membrane Distillation. Environ. Process. 5 (Suppl 1), 77–85 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40710-018-0292-9

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