期刊
DESALINATION
卷 445, 期 -, 页码 40-50出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2018.07.026
关键词
Surface modification; Dopamine; Coating; Membrane distillation; Fouling
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21106153]
- Solar Energy Initiative of the Chinese Academy of Sciences [KGCX2-YW-380]
- National High-Tech R&D Program of China [2012AA021202, 2014AA021005]
Surface modification is a useful method to enhance the antifouling ability of membranes for membrane distillation (MD). However, current surface modification strategies often tend to sacrifice the membrane flux. In this work, we decorated a commercial hydrophobic polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) membrane by coating dopamine (DA) alone. A unique surface coating being ultrathin, porous, and in-air hydrophilic/underwater oleophobic was constructed, which simultaneously increased the flux and fouling resistance of the PTFE membrane in MD desalination. When treating a 3.5 wt% NaCl aqueous solution at 70 degrees C through vacuum MD (VMD), compared with the pristine PIPE membrane flux of 28.8 kg/m(2).h, the flux of the modified membrane 0.5DA@PTFE-4 reached 89.6 kg/m(2).h, and the flux increased by 210%. Continuous VMD operations demonstrated that the 0.5DA@PTFE-4 membrane held a higher resistance to scaling than the pristine one. Moreover, the pristine PTFE membrane was incompetent to tackle an oily saline via VMD, showing an immediate membrane fouling and wetting. The 0.5DA@PTFE-4 membrane, however, exhibited a significant improvement in oil fouling resistance, rendering the VMD desalination process viable for more than 30 h. The findings in this work provided a new insight to develop the robust membrane with high performance used for MD.
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