Abstract
The fabrication of eco-friendly ceramic membranes based on low-cost raw materials, using digital INKJET printing techniques for active layer deposition and its validation in a membrane bioreactor (MBR) has been studied. The raw materials used in the manufacture of the support layer were UA50/2 clay, chamotte, calcium carbonate and potato starch. A MBR laboratory plant was operated to treat municipal wastewater with three ceramic membranes with different grammages in the selective layer deposition. The membrane performance at laboratory scale was evaluated in terms of transmembrane pressure (TMP) evolution for a constant permeate flux, permeate quality and mixed liquor characteristics. From these experiments, it was selected the membrane which obtained the lowest TMP profile maintaining appropriate water quality parameters (chemical oxygen demand (COD) removal percentage around 90% and turbidity around 0.06 NTU). This membrane was also operated at pilot plant scale in order to validate it at higher scale. Results indicated that TMP values were in the range of 0.06 and 0.1 bar, COD removal percentage was around 98% and microbiology analysis demonstrated that the quality of the effluent, according to European regulation 2020/741, can be classified as Class A and it can be reused for non-potable purposes.
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