Effect of the relative degree of foulant "hydrophobicity" on membrane fouling
Effect of the relative degree of foulant "hydrophobicity" on membrane fouling
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污染物“疏水性”相对程度对膜污染的影响
DOI：
10.1016/j.memsci.2018.10.023
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发表时间：
2019-01-15
影响因子：
9.5
通讯作者：
Huang, Xia
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作者：
Mu, Situ;Wang, Shu;Huang, Xia
Foulant hydrophobicity has been regarded as a key factor in membrane fouling. While hydrophobic/philic fractionation using DAX (or XAD) resin column has been extensively utilized in fouling studies, the critical retention factor (k'(cr), the ratio of water volume to column volume) has been long neglected which can alter the definition and relative degree of "hydrophobicity" of the obtained fractions and affect fouling results. To this end, this study compared fouling behavior of a membrane bioreactor (MBR) supernatant fractionated at varied k'(cr) and found that not the distinctively strong "hydrophobic" (k'(cr) > 50) or "hydrophilic" (k'(cr) < 5) fractions, but rather the nominally moderate "hydrophobic/philic" fractions had the greatest contribution to overall fouling. The joint influence of foulant "hydrophobicity" and coexisting factors (molecular weight, carboxylic group, UV/fluorescence properties and polysaccharide/protein/humic contents) was elucidated via multivariate statistical analysis. Therefore, special attention should be placed on the nominally moderate "hydrophobic/ philic" fractions for fouling control.
