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Influences of acid-base property of membrane on interfacial interactions related with membrane fouling in a membrane bioreactor based on thermodynamic assessment

Journal

BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY
Volume 214, Issue -, Pages 355-362

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ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2016.04.080

Keywords

Membrane bioreactor; Membrane fouling; XDLVO theory; Acid base interaction; Interaction energy

Funding

  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [51578509]
  2. Public Welfare Project of the Science and Technology Department of Zhejiang Province [2016C31106]
  3. Special Supporting Project for Zhejiang Provincial Research Institutes [2015F50013]
  4. Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province [LQ16E080003]

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Failure of membrane hydrophobicity in predicting membrane fouling requires a more reliable indicator. In this study, influences of membrane acid base (AB) property on interfacial interactions in two different interaction scenarios in a submerged membrane bioreactor (MBR) were studied according to thermodynamic approaches. It was found that both the polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) membrane and foulant samples in the MBR had relatively high electron donor (gamma(-)) component and low electron acceptor (gamma(+)) component. For both of interaction scenarios, AB interaction was the major component of the total interaction. The results showed that, the total interaction monotonically decreased with membrane gamma(-), while was marginally affected by membrane gamma(+), suggesting that gamma(-) could act as a reliable indicator for membrane fouling prediction. This study suggested that membrane modification for fouling mitigation should orient to improving membrane surface gamma(-) component rather than hydrophilicity. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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