Separation of hazardous organics by reverse osmosis membranes

✍ Scribed by Williams, M. ;Deshmukh, R. ;Bhattacharyya, D.

• Publisher: American Institute of Chemical Engineers
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 699 KB
• Volume: 9
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0278-4491
• DOI: 10.1002/ep.670090220

✦ Synopsis

Extensive experimental studies showed that thin-film, composite membranes can be used efiectively for the separation of selected hazardous organic compounds. This waste treatment technique ofiers dejnite advantages in terms of high solute separations at low pressures (<2 MPa) and broad pH operating range, and the use of charged membrane would allow the selective separation of some organics from feeds containing high salt concentrations. In addition, feed pre-ozonation of selected organics has been shown to provide signijicant improvement influx and rejection characteristics for both charged and uncharged membranes due to the formation of ionizable organic acid intermediates during the oxonation that do not interact as strongly with the membrane. I t has been shown that the overall ozonation-membrane process could be greatly aective in producing permeate water of high quality while minimizing the volume of waste that must be further treated. Batch adsorption studies were also utilized to understand the membrane flux drop phenomena in non-oxonated solutions.